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Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy
2016·259 pages
A former Wall Street quant exposes how opaque big-data algorithms reinforce inequality and threaten democracy in everyday life.
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A former Wall Street quant exposes how opaque big-data algorithms reinforce inequality and threaten democracy in everyday life.
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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: Everyone i...
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