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Weapons of Math Destruction

Paperback • 2017 • English • 1. edition

Weapons of Math Destruction

By Cathy O'Neil, Cathy Oneil

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About the book

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: Everyone is judged according to the same rules, and bias is eliminated. But as C...Show more

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ISBN

9780553418835

Publisher

Crown

Published year

2017

Language

English

Edition

1

Original title

Weapons of Math Destruction

Format

Paperback

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