[Download]->Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy Writen By Cathy O'Neil

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

By : Cathy O'Neil

READ BOOK NOW

 

DOWNLOAD BOOK NOW

 

Book Synopsis :

6 hrs and 23 mins A former Wall Street quant sounds an alarm on mathematical modeling?a pervasive new force in society that threatens to undermine democracy and widen inequality. ? 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 shocking book, the opposite is true. The models being used today are opaque, unregulated, and uncontestable, even when they?re wrong. Most troubling, they reinforce discrimination: If a poor student can?t get a loan because a lending model deems him too risky (by virtue of his race or neighborhood), he?s then cut off from the kind of education that could pull him out of poverty, and a vicious spiral ensues. Models are

Book Detail :

Author : Cathy O'Neil

Pages : 290 pages

Publisher : Random House Audio

Language : eng

ISBN-10 : B01JPAE44S

ISBN-13 :

 

Supporting format: PDF, EPUB, Kindle, Audio, MOBI, HTML, RTF, TXT, etc.

Supporting : PC, Android, Apple, Ipad, Iphone, etc.

================*================