Weapons of Math Destruction Quotes by Cathy O'Neil
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Weapons of Math Destruction Quotes by Cathy O'Neil
In principle, the math getting us in trouble could also remedy the problem by quantifying prejudice. But that could be done only by introducing the very data element that—so far—remains outside the analysis, albeit inside the eye of every profiling police officer: race.
Smart people would win. And dumber people, the providers of dumb money, would wind up holding billions (or trillions) of unpayable IOUs.