"People can change, and patterns can be broken": Contextualizing Tradeoffs in Automated Decision-Making Systems

This repository contains the survey, codebook, and Python scripts used to generate the survey questions for "'People can change, and patterns can be broken': Contextualizing Tradeoffs in Automated Decision-Making Systems". 

The files labeled fairness_[scenario].pdf and security_[scenario].pdf contain the survey questions for each of the eight different branches of the survey. 

# Survey Generation Scripts

This repository contains scripts to generate survey questionnaires for different tradeoff scenarios.

## Overview

There are two main scripts:

- `survey_fairness.py`  
  Generates survey questions for the four tradeoffs related to **fairness**.

- `survey_security.py`  
  Generates survey questions for the four tradeoffs related to **security**.

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## Usage

### Fairness Survey

To generate a fairness-related survey:

```bash
python survey_fairness.py --[scenario]

### Security Survey

To generate a fairness-related survey:

```bash
python survey_security.py --[scenario]

## Available Scenario
The following scenarios can be used with both scripts:
- insurance
- jobs
- mortgage
- prison

Examples: 
python survey_fairness.py --insurance 
python survey_security.py --jobs