Fairness
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Fairness or being fair may refer to:
- Equity (law), a legal principle allowing for the use of discretion and fairness when applying justice
- Social justiceSocial justiceSocial justice generally refers to the idea of creating a society or institution that is based on the principles of equality and solidarity, that understands and values human rights, and that recognizes the dignity of every human being. The term and modern concept of "social justice" was coined by...
, equality and solidarity in a society - Distributive justiceDistributive justiceDistributive justice concerns what some consider to be socially just allocation of goods in a society. A society in which incidental inequalities in outcome do not arise would be considered a society guided by the principles of distributive justice...
, equal allocation of goods in a society - Fairness, absence of bias in specific realms:
- In American broadcasting, presentation of controversies in accord with the Fairness DoctrineFairness DoctrineThe Fairness Doctrine was a policy of the United States Federal Communications Commission , introduced in 1949, that required the holders of broadcast licenses to both present controversial issues of public importance and to do so in a manner that was, in the Commission's view, honest, equitable...
- In computer science, fairness is a property of unbounded nondeterminismUnbounded nondeterminismIn computer science, unbounded nondeterminism or unbounded indeterminacy is a property of concurrency by which the amount of delay in servicing a request can become unbounded as a result of arbitration of contention for shared resources while still guaranteeing that the request will eventually be...
- In network engineering, access to resources formally rated by a fairness measureFairness measureFairness measures or metrics are used in network engineering to determine whether users or applications are receiving a fair share of system resources. There are several mathematical and conceptual definitions of fairness.-TCP fairness:...
- In game theory, abstract principles for achieving fair divisionFair divisionFair division, also known as the cake-cutting problem, is the problem of dividing a resource in such a way that all recipients believe that they have received a fair amount...
- In economics, relation among economic factors where price matches fair valueFair valueFair value, also called fair price , is a concept used in accounting and economics, defined as a rational and unbiased estimate of the potential market price of a good, service, or asset, taking into account such objective factors as:* acquisition/production/distribution costs, replacement costs,...
that is (not only bias-free but also) rational
- In American broadcasting, presentation of controversies in accord with the Fairness Doctrine
- Fairness of human pigmentation, relatively light coloring, especially of skin
- Being fair, property of motion of a batted baseball that qualifies it as a fair ballFair ballIn baseball, a fair ball is a batted ball that entitles the batter to attempt to reach first base. In order for a batted ball to be fair, it must be hit in such a way that it:...