Hardcover • 2016 • English • 1. edition

Weapons of Math Destruction How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy

Name: Weapons of Math Destruction How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy
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ISBN: 9780553418811

By Cathy O'Neil

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About the book

Longlisted for the National Book Award | New York Times Bestseller A former Wall Street quant sounds an alarm on the mathematical models that pervade modern life and threaten to rip apart our social fabric. We live in the age of the algorithm. Increasingly, the decisions that affect our lives--where we go to school, whether we get a car loan, how much we pay for health insurance--are being made not by humans, but by mathematical models. In theory, this should lead to greater fairness: Ever...Show more

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9780553418811

Publisher

Crown

Published year

2016

Language

English

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Weapons of Math Destruction How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy

Format

Hardcover

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