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One Fairness Score Missed the Rank Shift

A synthetic correspondence-audit workflow checks candidate matching across five protected-characteristic axes.

Published Updated Story ID: mp-2026-08-30-019
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Summary

A synthetic correspondence-audit workflow checks candidate matching across five protected-characteristic axes.

In an example with five jobs, 100 base candidates and 10 treatments, score and retention measures stayed within tolerance while rank-stability and nDCG surfaced borderline findings. The small synthetic example supports multi-metric auditing, not a finding about hiring systems generally.

Why it matters

A synthetic correspondence-audit workflow checks candidate matching across five protected-characteristic axes.

Limits and context

  • The small synthetic example supports multi-metric auditing, not a finding about hiring systems generally.

Key claims

  1. A synthetic correspondence-audit workflow checks candidate matching across five protected-characteristic axes.

    Qualification: The small synthetic example supports multi-metric auditing, not a finding about hiring systems generally.

    Evidence: source-2026-08-30-021

Sources

  1. arXiv preprint 2608.26899arXiv · primary research

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