# Fairness

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**Fairness** or **being fair** can refer to:

- [Justice](/source/Justice); in particular: - [Objectivity (philosophy)](/source/Objectivity_(philosophy)), independence from any person's mind - [Impartiality](/source/Impartiality), property of decisions based on objective criteria - [Procedural justice](/source/Procedural_justice), rules or procedures used to allocate goods, benefits, and other outcomes fairly - [Interactional justice](/source/Interactional_justice), fair treatment of persons in social situations
- Fairness, a character in the musical comedy *[A Theory of Justice: The Musical](/source/A_Theory_of_Justice:_The_Musical)*
- [Fairness measure](/source/Fairness_measure), metrics to quantify the fair distribution of resources
- [Fairness Doctrine](/source/Fairness_Doctrine), principle for equitable presentation of controversies in American broadcasting
- [Fairness](/source/Unbounded_nondeterminism#Fairness), a property of unbounded nondeterminism in algorithms
- [Fairness (machine learning)](/source/Fairness_(machine_learning)), a desirable property of machine learning algorithms
- [Fair division](/source/Fair_division) in game theory
- [Fair value](/source/Fair_value) in economics
- Fairness of [human skin tone](/source/Human_skin_color#Skin_tone_variability)
- [Physical attractiveness](/source/Physical_attractiveness), the original meaning of the word
- [Fair ball](/source/Fair_ball) in baseball
- [Sportsmanship](/source/Sportsmanship)

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