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_bNEI
100 _aO'Neil, Cathy
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245 _aWeapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy
260 _bAllen Lane Publication
_aUK
_c2016
300 _a259p
500 _aWe 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.
600 _aHumanities and Social Science
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600 _aDemocracy
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