Fairness

Fairness or being fair may refer to:

• Equity (law), a legal principle allowing for the use of discretion and fairness when applying justice
• Social justice, equality and solidarity in a society
• Distributive justice, equal allocation of goods in a society
• Fairness, absence of bias in specific realms:
  • In American broadcasting, presentation of controversies in accord with the Fairness Doctrine
  • In computer science, fairness is a property of unbounded nondeterminism
  • In network engineering, access to resources formally rated by a fairness measure
  • In game theory, abstract principles for achieving fair division
  • In economics, relation among economic factors where price matches fair value that is (not only bias-free but also) rational
• Fairness of human pigmentation, relatively light coloring, especially of skin
• Being fair, property of motion of a batted baseball that qualifies it as a fair ball