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: 9780553418835

ISBN-10: 0553418831

ISBN-13: 9780553418835

Edition: 2016

Authors: Cathy O'Neil

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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 Cathy O Neil reveals in this urgent and necessary book, the opposite is true. The models being used today are opaque, unregulated, and uncontestable, even when they re wrong. Most troubling, they…

Book details

List price: $17.00
Copyright year: 2016
Publisher: The Crown Publishing Group
Publication date: 9/5/2017
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 5.19" wide x 7.99" long x 0.62" tall
Weight: 0.484
Language: English