Claim LD05-HQ-C04 (v1.0)

Allegheny supervisors screened out 21.0% of children marked as mandatory screen-ins; corrected analysis supports the conclusion that worker judgement reduced racial disparity relative to an AFST-only counterfactual.

Research opportunities this claim motivates

What this claim leaves open for research. Each is a hypothesis about a gap, not a finding.

Outside corrections, how often do officials depart from algorithmic recommendations?Allegheny supervisors screened out 21.0% of mandatory screen-ins, a different kind of departure (a different margin and denominator) from Poland's, showing why a common coding scheme is needed.

Provenance and status

Claim type: FACT (as printed: “FACT”)
Publication status: ELIGIBLE (QUALIFIED) (as printed: “ELIGIBLE WITH QUALIFIER”)
Verification state: CONTENT_VERIFIED_PRIMARY (as printed: “CONTENT VERIFIED”; verified by: UNKNOWN)
Does not license: Overall human accuracy superiority; generalisation to child welfare elsewhere
Source (field 6, as printed): Cheng et al., CHI 2022; Stapleton et al., corrected analysis arXiv:2204.13872
Source type (field 7): PEER_REVIEWED_CONFERENCE_PAPER, PREPRINT (as printed: “Peer-reviewed conference paper + correction preprint”)
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

Current version v1.0, resolved through the explicit current pointer CLAIM--LD05-HQ-C04.

Versions:v1.0 · current

Pinned Sources (field 6, version-specific)

“Cheng 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)
“Stapleton et al., corrected analysis arXiv:2204.13872” → 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)

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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-C04	—
2	PUBLIC-FACING CLAIM	Allegheny supervisors screened out 21.0% of children marked as mandatory screen-ins; corrected analysis supports the conclusion that worker judgement reduced racial disparity relative to an AFST-only counterfactual.	—
3	CLAIM TYPE	FACT	base_types: FACT
4	RESEARCH STRAND	B — Decision support vs automation	—
5	MATURITY	RAPIDLY MATURING	states: RAPIDLY_MATURING
6	SOURCE	Cheng et al., CHI 2022; Stapleton et al., corrected analysis arXiv:2204.13872	source_ids: SRC-LD05-CHENG-ET-AL-CHI-2022, SRC-LD05-STAPLETON-ET-AL-2022
7	SOURCE TYPE	Peer-reviewed conference paper + correction preprint	classes: PEER_REVIEWED_CONFERENCE_PAPER, PREPRINT
8	INSTITUTIONAL POSITION	Independent academic	—
9	SCOPE	Allegheny County child-welfare screening	—
10	DESIGN	Observational counterfactual analysis	—
11	SAMPLE / DATASET	County referral/screening data	—
12	MODEL / TOOL / VERSION	Allegheny Family Screening Tool	—
13	COMPARATOR	Worker+AFST vs AFST-only counterfactual	—
14	MAIN RESULT	21.0% mandatory-screen-in override; racial disparity lower under worker+AFST than AFST-only	—
15	INFERENTIAL TARGET	Meaningful override and disparity effect	—
16	DOES NOT LICENSE	Overall human accuracy superiority; generalisation to child welfare elsewhere	—
17	VERIFICATION STATE	CONTENT VERIFIED	state: CONTENT_VERIFIED_PRIMARY · verified_by: UNKNOWN
18	LIMITATIONS	One county; exact 17.9→7.1 figure remains HOLD	—
19	CONTRADICTORY / SUPPORTING SOURCES	Corrected analysis supersedes original accuracy comparison	—
20	GEOGRAPHY / LANGUAGE	US/English	—
21	DISTRIBUTIONAL LEDGER	Black/white screening disparity	—
22	R01 / FIELD-MAP LINKS	D5, D4a, L-A	—
23	WHAT WOULD CHANGE THIS CLAIM?	Reanalysis reversing corrected disparity result	—
24	PUBLICATION STATUS	ELIGIBLE WITH QUALIFIER	state: ELIGIBLE · qualifiers: QUALIFIED
25	RECORDED DATE	2026-09-25	—

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

Cited by Living Debate versions

LD-05 v0.1

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 dbf3cf95e3b0f6a10939ec443415b1ce5f3d3c99dd072419d9fffe275aca1d53.

Frozen Drive-derived inputs

R04 — LD-05 Canonical Claim Ledger v1.0 — LOCKED (v1.0) — Drive ID 1WkAv7jmWIrr1GBmYSv66jDc8m222Yd9z; revision: NOT_EXPOSED_BY_DRIVE_TEXT_EXPORT; Drive modified ; block “ENTRY 04 — LD05-HQ-C04” SHA-256 ecbbd8dc9eb9a4d558e3328baf563513d6625467254f91c72c02e69a47633edc; SocioLens — Programme Status & Authority Register v0.6 status “CURRENT.”; frozen fixture fixtures/frozen/r04-ld05-claim-ledger-v1.0.

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 04 — LD05-HQ-C04 cites "Cheng 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 04 — LD05-HQ-C04 cites "Stapleton et al., corrected analysis arXiv:2204.13872"; 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").
SOURCE_PROVENANCE_PIN = SRC-LD05-CHENG-ET-AL-CHI-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-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.