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Abstract:
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Suppose you are a member of a committee charged with reviewing many applications. How do you randomly assign committee members to applications as equitably as possible?
In this talk, we define what equitable random assignment means, explain why it’s desirable, and propose an algorithm to solve the problem. More generally, the problem is to randomly assign a combination of workers to tasks such that each worker has the same load, and each task is equally likely to have any combination of workers. We have incorporated equitable random assignment in our department’s hiring process to improve equity, which was the original motivation for this work. We conclude with a demonstration of our freely available open source software implementation, which is ready for public use.
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