Disparity and disparities may refer to:
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Health disparities
Health equity arises from access to the social determinants of health, specifically from wealth, power and prestige. Individuals who have consistently been deprived of these three determinants are significantly disadvantaged from health inequit ...
in finance:
* Income disparity between females and males.
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Male–female income disparity in the United States
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Income gender gap
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Economic inequality
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Income inequality metrics
Income inequality metrics or income distribution metrics are used by social scientists to measure the distribution of wealth, distribution of income and economic inequality among the participants in a particular economy, such as that of a specific ...
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International inequality
International inequality refers to inequality between countries, as compared to global inequality, which is inequality between people across countries. International inequality research has primarily been concentrated on the rise of internati ...
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Income inequality in the United States
Income inequality has fluctuated considerably in the United States since measurements began around 1915, moving in an arc between peaks in the 1920s and 2000s, with a lower level of inequality from approximately 1950-1980 (a period named the ...
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Wealth inequality in the United States
The inequality of wealth (i.e., inequality in the distribution of resources, assets) has substantially increased in the United States since the late 1980s. Wealth commonly includes the values of any homes, automobiles, personal valuables, busi ...
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Stereopsis
Binocular vision is seeing with two eyes, which increases the size of the Visual field, visual field. If the visual fields of the two eyes overlap, binocular #Depth, depth can be seen. This allows objects to be recognized more quickly, camouflage ...
, the perception of depth and structure derived from binocular vision
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Binocular disparity
Binocular disparity refers to the difference in image location of similar features seen by the left and right eyes resulting from the eyes' horizontal separation (parallax).
In visual perception, binocular disparity refers to edges and small blo ...
, binocular cue to determine depth or distance of an object
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Ecological disparity, the number of different guilds occupying an ecosystem
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Phenotypic disparity, variation of observable characteristics within biological groups
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Running disparity, the number of 1 bits minus the number of 0 bits
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Paired disparity code, a pattern that keeps the running disparity close to zero
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Social inequality
Social inequality occurs when resources within a society are distributed unevenly, often as a result of inequitable allocation practices that create distinct unequal patterns based on socially defined categories of people. Differences in acce ...
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Social equality
Social equality is a state of affairs in which all individuals within society have equal rights, liberties, and status, possibly including civil rights, freedom of expression, autonomy, and equal access to certain public goods and social servi ...
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Social stratification
Social stratification refers to a society's categorization of its people into groups based on socioeconomic factors like wealth, income, race, education, ethnicity, gender, occupation, social status, or derived power (social and political ...
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Curvilinear Disparity is a political theory which posits that the rank and file members of a party tend to be more ideological than both the leadership of that party and its voters.
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