Fairness or being fair may refer to:
- Distributive justice Distributive justice concerns what some consider to be socially just with respect to the allocation of goods in a society. Thus, a community in which incidental inequalities in outcome do not arise would be considered a society guided by the principles of distributive justice. Allocation of goods takes into thought the total amount of goods to be
- Equity (law) Equity is the name given to the set of legal principles, in jurisdictions following the English common law tradition, which supplement strict rules of law where their application would operate harshly. In civil legal systems, broad "general clause" allow judges to have similar leeway in applying the code
- Fairness, absence of bias in specific realms:
- In American broadcasting, presentation of controversies in accord with the Fairness Doctrine The Fairness Doctrine was a policy of the United States Federal Communications Commission , introduced in 1949, that required the holders of broadcast licenses both to present controversial issues of public importance and to do so in a manner that was (in the Commission's view) honest, equitable and balanced
- In network engineering, access to resources formally rated by a fairness measure
- In game theory, abstract principles for achieving fair division Fair 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. The problem is easier when recipients have different measures of value of the parts of the resource: in the "cake cutting" version, one recipient may like marzipan,
- In economics, relation among economic factors where price matches fair value In accounting, fair value is used as an estimate of the market value of an asset for which a market price cannot be determined (usually because there is no established market for the asset). Under GAAP (FAS 157), Fair Value is the amount at which the asset could be bought or sold in a current transaction between willing parties, or transferred to that is (not only bias-free but also) rational
- Fairness of human pigmentation, relatively light coloring, especially of skin Human skin color can range from almost black to nearly colorless (appearing pinkish white due to the blood vessels under the skin) in different people. Skin color is determined primarily by the amount and type of melanin, the pigment in the skin. Variation in skin color is largely due to genetics
- Being fair, property of motion of a batted baseball that qualifies it as a fair ball
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