Weapons of Math Destruction Quotes by Cathy O'Neil

Big Data Can be Bad Data (Michael E. Smith): Putting math in it does not make it science if the numbers were made

Fourth, blind data dredging can lead to the perpetuation of obsolete social biases

Number crunching can put the little guy at a real disadvantage, since sellers can better predict how much they can squeeze out of us.

The slogan goes, “Move fast and break things.” But what if society is broken?

Every attempt to predictively model faces this central challenge to establish general principles and weed out the noise, the artifacts peculiar only to the limited data at hand. It’s the nature of the problem. Even if there are millions