Language Models Show a"Women-Are-Wonderful"Effect in Blame Attribution That is Not Just Leniency
This paper investigates the Women-Are-Wonderful (WaW) effect in language-model blame attribution: a favorable bias in which women receive more positive evaluations than men. Using 11,270 interpersonal conflicts from r/AmItheAsshole, we construct matched counterfactuals that vary the gender of the person being judged (t...