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

by Cathy O'Neil

Models are opinions embedded in mathematics.

The math could multiply the horseshit, but it could not decipher it.

Between 1985 and 2013, the cost of higher education rose by more than 500 percent, nearly four times the rate of inflation.

As data hounds have long said: garbage in, garbage out.

Humans in the data economy are outliers and throwbacks. The systems are built to run automatically as much as possible.