Claim LD05-HQ-C02 (v1.0)

Human override has no fixed fairness direction: it can reduce or amplify disparity depending on the human baseline, institutional setting and the margin being overridden.

Provenance and status

Claim type: INTERPRETATION (as printed: “INTERPRETATION”)
Publication status: ELIGIBLE (as printed: “ELIGIBLE”)
Verification state: CONTENT_VERIFIED_PRIMARY (as printed: “CONTENT VERIFIED”; verified by: UNKNOWN)
Does not license: “Humans are fairer” or “algorithms are fairer”
Source (field 6, as printed): Cheng/Stapleton et al. CHI 2022 + corrected analysis; Albright 2019
Source type (field 7): PEER_REVIEWED_CONFERENCE_PAPER, PREPRINT, WORKING_PAPER (as printed: “Peer-reviewed article + correction preprint + working paper”)
Institutional position: Independent academic
Maturity (claim evidence / publication maturity): RAPIDLY_MATURING (as printed: “RAPIDLY MATURING”)
Recorded date: 2026-09-25
Currentness / correction: This is the current version. Correction / concern relations of its Sources: SRC-LD05-CHENG-ET-AL-CHI-2022 CORRECTED_BY SRC-LD05-STAPLETON-ET-AL-2022.

Version

Pinned version v1.0 (entry LD05-HQ-C02--v1.0) — this page never floats to newer evidence.

This pinned version is also the current version.

Versions:v1.0 · current

Pinned Sources (field 6, version-specific)

“Cheng/Stapleton et al. CHI 2022” → SRC-LD05-CHENG-ET-AL-CHI-2022--v1.0 — Cheng et al., “How Child Welfare Workers Reduce Racial Disparities in Algorithmic Decisions,” CHI 2022; class PEER_REVIEWED_CONFERENCE_PAPER — status: CORRECTED_BY SRC-LD05-STAPLETON-ET-AL-2022 (explicit public provenance pin)
“corrected analysis” → SRC-LD05-STAPLETON-ET-AL-2022--v1.0 — Stapleton et al., “Extended Analysis of ‘How Child Welfare Workers Reduce Racial Disparities in Algorithmic Decisions’,” arXiv:2204.13872; class PREPRINT — status: CORRECTS SRC-LD05-CHENG-ET-AL-CHI-2022 (explicit public provenance pin)
“Albright 2019” → SRC-LD05-ALBRIGHT-RISK-SCORE-2019--v1.0 — Albright, “If You Give a Judge a Risk Score: Evidence from Kentucky Bail Decisions,” Harvard John M. Olin Fellows’ Discussion Paper 85 (2019); class WORKING_PAPER (explicit public provenance pin)

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All 25 canonical Claim fields (raw values and normalized values)

#	Canonical field	Canonical value (verbatim)	Normalized (Claim Value Vocabulary v1.0.2)
1	CLAIM ID	LD05-HQ-C02	—
2	PUBLIC-FACING CLAIM	Human override has no fixed fairness direction: it can reduce or amplify disparity depending on the human baseline, institutional setting and the margin being overridden.	—
3	CLAIM TYPE	INTERPRETATION	base_types: INTERPRETATION
4	RESEARCH STRAND	F — Distribution and inequality	—
5	MATURITY	RAPIDLY MATURING	states: RAPIDLY_MATURING
6	SOURCE	Cheng/Stapleton et al. CHI 2022 + corrected analysis; Albright 2019	source_ids: SRC-LD05-CHENG-ET-AL-CHI-2022, SRC-LD05-STAPLETON-ET-AL-2022, SRC-LD05-ALBRIGHT-RISK-SCORE-2019
7	SOURCE TYPE	Peer-reviewed article + correction preprint + working paper	classes: PEER_REVIEWED_CONFERENCE_PAPER, PREPRINT, WORKING_PAPER
8	INSTITUTIONAL POSITION	Independent academic	—
9	SCOPE	US child welfare and pretrial bail	—
10	DESIGN	Observational / counterfactual / quasi-experimental analysis	—
11	SAMPLE / DATASET	Allegheny referral data; Kentucky court data	—
12	MODEL / TOOL / VERSION	AFST; Kentucky pretrial risk/default system	—
13	COMPARATOR	Algorithm-only/default vs human departure	—
14	MAIN RESULT	Allegheny workers reduced racial disparity; Kentucky departure was harsher for Black defendants	—
15	INFERENTIAL TARGET	Direction of human override effects	—
16	DOES NOT LICENSE	“Humans are fairer” or “algorithms are fairer”	—
17	VERIFICATION STATE	CONTENT VERIFIED	state: CONTENT_VERIFIED_PRIMARY · verified_by: UNKNOWN
18	LIMITATIONS	Two US contexts; exact Kentucky magnitude remains HOLD	—
19	CONTRADICTORY / SUPPORTING SOURCES	Allegheny and Kentucky qualify one another	—
20	GEOGRAPHY / LANGUAGE	US/English	—
21	DISTRIBUTIONAL LEDGER	Race-specific disparity effects	—
22	R01 / FIELD-MAP LINKS	D5, D4a, L-A	—
23	WHAT WOULD CHANGE THIS CLAIM?	Broad evidence of a stable override effect across contexts	—
24	PUBLICATION STATUS	ELIGIBLE	state: ELIGIBLE
25	RECORDED DATE	2026-09-25	—

Field 22 references resolved against Field Map v0.2: D5 (DOMAIN); D4a (SUB_AREA); L-A (LENS)

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Research-of-record provenance

Materialized by sociolens-materializer 0.6.0 at 2026-09-28T20:00:00.000Z; normalization contract SocioLens — Claim Value Vocabulary v1.0.2 — Pre-Spike Materialization Contract (v1.0.2). Content seal SHA-256 5949aa155b02ca6e8582335d4781fbae1dc18c152bdbadced541d6cd05d7eded.

Frozen Drive-derived inputs

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Builder decisions (not Drive data)

VERSION = v1.0 — basis: Claim version taken from the canonical ledger artifact version (R04 — LD-05 Canonical Claim Ledger v1.0); Implementation Architecture Selection §5
CURRENT_POINTER = true — basis: SocioLens — Programme Status & Authority Register v0.6 status for "R04 — LD-05 Canonical Claim Ledger v1.0 — LOCKED": "CURRENT."
FIELD_6_SOURCE_REFERENCE = SRC-LD05-CHENG-ET-AL-CHI-2022--v1.0 — basis: field 6 of ENTRY 02 — LD05-HQ-C02 cites "Cheng/Stapleton et al. CHI 2022"; the frozen field-6 segment of this ClaimVersion's ledger block; Drive-derived identity authority (Issue #37 Source inventory): ledger C02/C04 fields 6–8; Batch 01 §3 "Primary source:" (DOI 10.1145/3491102.3501831); KEY EVIDENCE ("Peer-reviewed conference paper").
FIELD_6_SOURCE_REFERENCE = SRC-LD05-STAPLETON-ET-AL-2022--v1.0 — basis: field 6 of ENTRY 02 — LD05-HQ-C02 cites "corrected analysis"; the frozen field-6 segment of this ClaimVersion's ledger block; Drive-derived identity authority (Issue #37 Source inventory): ledger C02 "corrected analysis"/C04 fields 6–8; Batch 01 "Related extended correction"; KEY EVIDENCE ("Correction/preprint").
FIELD_6_SOURCE_REFERENCE = SRC-LD05-ALBRIGHT-RISK-SCORE-2019--v1.0 — basis: field 6 of ENTRY 02 — LD05-HQ-C02 cites "Albright 2019"; the frozen field-6 segment of this ClaimVersion's ledger block; Drive-derived identity authority (Issue #37 Source inventory): ledger C02/C05 fields 6–8; Batch 01 §7; KEY EVIDENCE ("Working paper").
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SOURCE_PROVENANCE_PIN = SRC-LD05-STAPLETON-ET-AL-2022--v1.0 — basis: Issue #5 proof rendering (Architecture Proof Protocol v0.1 AP-08 / Amendment v1.2 §6): explicit version-pinned public provenance of this ClaimVersion — the pinned field-6 Source record.
SOURCE_PROVENANCE_PIN = SRC-LD05-ALBRIGHT-RISK-SCORE-2019--v1.0 — basis: Issue #5 proof rendering (Architecture Proof Protocol v0.1 AP-08 / Amendment v1.2 §6): explicit version-pinned public provenance of this ClaimVersion — the pinned field-6 Source record.