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

Weapons of Math Destruction

How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy

2016 • 274 pages

Ratings99

Average rating3.8

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Medium: audiobook narrated by the author
WMD is like a long podcast. It is filled it case studies and instances of how badly created statistical devices build using terrible proxy indicators effect real communities and oppress them.
This book is a very easy read (listen). Cathy doesn't dwell more in the details of how these models are created, something that I wanted to learn more about. This is basically a curation of important stories and how mathematical models lacking societal context hurts the very people it was made to help. I wish she described these black box models more and discussed the math a bit. But overall, it was a very informative and interesting read.

July 26, 2019