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

Book by Cathy O'Neil · 1 quotes · Big Data, Fairness, Feedback Loop

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“From a mathematical point of view, however, trust is hard to quantify. That's a challenge for people building models. Sadly, it's far easier to keep counting arrests, to build models that assume we're birds of a feather and treat us as such. Innocent people surrounded by criminals get treated badly, and criminals surrounded by law-abiding public get a pass. And because of the strong correlation between poverty and reported crime, the poor continue to get caught up in the digital dragnets. The rest of us barely have to think about them.”

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