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Record W4412882037 · doi:10.1177/2755323x251362525

Biased Evaluation of Pain and Suffering Damages

2025· article· en· W4412882037 on OpenAlex
Maytal Gilboa, Tamar Kricheli‐Katz

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Bibliographic record

VenueJournal of law & empirical analysis. · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicJury Decision Making Processes
Canadian institutionsWestern University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsDamagesPain and sufferingMedicinePsychologyPolitical scienceLaw

Abstract

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Studies have documented racial and gender-based disparities in civil jury awards. Legal scholars have raised concerns that biases might be especially prevalent in awarding pain and suffering damages, which are particularly open-ended and difficult to estimate. We contribute to this body of literature by providing experimental evidence of a causal relationship between the perceived race and gender of victims, the perception of their pain and suffering, and the damages awarded to them. We focus on two types of injuries: head and knee injuries, on the intersection of gender and race and on related evaluations of victims’ behavior. We find that people perceive the pain and suffering of White victims to be greater than that of Black victims afflicted by the same head injury. The most alarming finding of our experiment is that Black male victims receive significantly lower amounts of damages for pain and suffering associated with both head and knee injuries compared to all other victims. By contrast, Black female victims are not penalized compared to White women and men, and receive significantly higher amounts of damages for their pain and suffering associated with both head and knee injuries compared to Black men.

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Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.011
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.004
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: Observational
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.414
Threshold uncertainty score0.455

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0110.004
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.002
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.127
GPT teacher head0.481
Teacher spread0.354 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it