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SUBMITTER: Kleinberg J
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5947971 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
The quarterly journal of economics 20170826 1
Can machine learning improve human decision making? Bail decisions provide a good test case. Millions of times each year, judges make jail-or-release decisions that hinge on a prediction of what a defendant would do if released. The concreteness of the prediction task combined with the volume of data available makes this a promising machine-learning application. Yet comparing the algorithm to judges proves complicated. First, the available data are generated by prior judge decisions. We only obs ...[more]