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Weapons of Math Destruction Cathy O’Neil

In her most recent book, "Weapons of Math Destruction," author O'Neil argues that the measurable models are summed up by huge information evangelists as the solution for the present cultural issues, similar to which educators to shoot or that crooks to award longer jail terms can systematize predispositions and worsen imbalances. Models are conclusions implanted in science, she composes. She shares accounts of individuals who have been esteemed contemptible everywhere by a calculation. There was the remarkably respected mentor who is terminated as for a low score on an educator appraisal tools, the undergrad who couldn't find a lowest pay permitted by law line of work at a market because of his answers on a character test, the individuals whose Visa spending limits were brought down on the grounds that they shopped at specific stores. To make an already complex situation even bad, the calculations that made a decision about them are totally murky and unassailable ADDIN ZOTERO_ITEM CSL_CITATION {"citationID":"qRo3fjBF","properties":{"formattedCitation":"(Chalabi, 2016)","plainCitation":"(Chalabi, 2016)","noteIndex":0},"citationItems":[{"id":1047,"uris":["http://zotero.org/users/local/rVaVAHaF/items/VFLXP4LK"],"uri":["http://zotero.org/users/local/rVaVAHaF/items/VFLXP4LK"],"itemData":{"id":1047,"type":"article-newspaper","title":"Weapons of Math Destruction: Cathy O'Neil adds up the damage of algorithms","container-title":"The Guardian","section":"Books","source":"www.theguardian.com","abstract":"The Harvard PhD and data scientist talks about her new book and ponders how people’s fear and trust of math is akin to worshipping God","URL":"https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/oct/27/cathy-oneil-weapons-of-math-destruction-algorithms-big-data","ISSN":"0261-3077","shortTitle":"Weapons of Math Destruction","language":"en-GB","author":[{"family":"Chalabi","given":"Mona"}],"issued":{"date-parts":[["2016",10,27]]},"accessed":{"date-parts":[["2019",12,20]]}}}],"schema":"https://github.com/citation-style-language/schema/raw/master/csl-citation.json"} (Chalabi, 2016).

people often have no plan of action when the calculation contains an error. O'Neil discusses money related WMDs and her encounters, however, the models in her book originate from numerous different aspects of life also: school rankings, business application screeners, policing and condemning calculations, work environment wellbeing programs, and the numerous unseemly ways FICO ratings reward the rich and rebuff poor people. One of the most filed revelations was the AURA- a true example of WMD (Weapons of math destruction). One principle insight was what if these scores were simply elevated, as someone happened to be black or happened to be poor, the fact that she, referred to her own situation as a child was particularly touching. “People should feel more entitled to push back and ask for evidence, but they seem to fold a little too quickly when they’re told that it’s complicated,” ADDIN ZOTERO_ITEM CSL_CITATION {"citationID":"ECqdhS3e","properties":{"formattedCitation":"(\\uc0\\u8220{}Cathy O\\uc0\\u8217{}Neil, author of \\uc0\\u8216{}Weapons of Math Destruction,\\uc0\\u8217{} on the dark side of big data - Los Angeles Times,\\uc0\\u8221{} n.d.)","plainCitation":"(“Cathy O’Neil, author of ‘Weapons of Math Destruction,’ on the dark side of big data - Los Angeles Times,” n.d.)","noteIndex":0},"citationItems":[{"id":1046,"uris":["http://zotero.org/users/local/rVaVAHaF/items/LWSRVEBX"],"uri":["http://zotero.org/users/local/rVaVAHaF/items/LWSRVEBX"],"itemData":{"id":1046,"type":"webpage","title":"Cathy O'Neil, author of 'Weapons of Math Destruction,' on the dark side of big data - Los Angeles Times","URL":"https://www.latimes.com/books/jacketcopy/la-ca-jc-cathy-oneil-20161229-story.html","accessed":{"date-parts":[["2019",12,20]]}}}],"schema":"https://github.com/citation-style-language/schema/raw/master/csl-citation.json"} (“Cathy O’Neil, author of ‘Weapons of Math Destruction,’ on the dark side of big data - Los Angeles Times,” n.d.) she says.

After reading the book “weapon of math destruction” by Cathy O’Neil, I must admit that it did not grasp her draft first time completely. Her article was disjointed at best. The rereading of a couple more time, it was trying to establish. Because of her slightly skewed approach to the topic, the article came off as being “high-sounding” versus just getting to the point. One of the quotes she made was about tailored advertising that is for-profit coverage to find answerable single black mothers, it was necessary to find individual’s main points and promise them a better life if they signed up online courses. The result was that it put them in debt and gave them a worthless education. This tailored advertising example pointed out the ugly practice of targeting people less fortunate than others and then blatantly taking advantage of them in pursuit of putting money into the pockets of salacious money-grabbers.

Next assertion one made (where is ever so true) was how the corrupt politicians use polls to sway elections, her conclusion was that “if nobody did polls or talked about them, simply address the issues of the campaign, we'd have a much better democracy". The teacher evaluation hype- Yes, Cathy, it is a slap in the face of the Freedom of Information Act.

WMD (Weapons of math destruction) was summed up by her illustrative dynamic a message that all people who have moral tones in their body should heed. Weapons of math pulverization, which O'Neil alludes to all through the book as WMDs, are scientific models or calculations that guarantee to evaluate significant characteristics: instructor quality, recidivism chance, financial soundness, however, have destructive results and regularly strengthen disparity, keeping the poor and the rich. They share three things for all intents and purpose: obscurity, scale, and harm. They are regularly exclusive or generally protected from prying eyes, so they have the impact of being a black box. They influence enormous quantities of individuals, expanding the odds that they fail to understand the situation for some of them. Furthermore, they negatively affect individuals, maybe by encoding bigotry or different predispositions into a calculation or empowering ruthless organizations to publicize specifically to helpless individuals, or even by causing a worldwide budgetary emergency.

Eventually, calculations, as per O'Neil, fortify segregation and extend disparity, "utilizing individuals' dread and trust of science to keep them from posing inquiries". The apparently opposing words "dread" and "trust" jump out to me: what number of different things do we both dread and trust, with the exception of maybe for destiny or God? O'Neil concurs. "I think it has a couple of signs of love – we turn off pieces of our mind, we by one way or another vibe like it's not our obligation, not our entitlement to scrutinize this."

While Weapons of Math Destruction is brimming with hard certainties and inauspicious insights, it is additionally available and in any event, engaging. O'Neil's composing is immediate and simple to peruse, I ate up it in an evening. What's more, the book isn't all inauspicious. In the last section, she shares a few thoughts about how we can incapacitate WMDs and utilize enormous information for good. She proposes a Hippocratic Oath for information researchers and expounds on the most proficient method to direct math models. How about we come back to the sentences I opened explained that the innovation as of now exists. It's just the will we're deficient. That is grim and we are not doing what we can, however, should give us some expectation also. The innovation exists! On the off chance that we build up the will, we can utilize enormous information to propel equity and equity.

One of the vilest revelations was the AURA- a true example of W of MD (Weapons of math destruction). One powerful insight fact that was discussed earlier that what if these scores were simply elevated, simply because someone happened to be black or happened to be poor, she referred to her own situation as a child, was particularly touching.

Therefore, W of MD (Weapons of math destruction) was summed up by her illustrative dynamic a message that all people who have a moral tone in their body, should notice.

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ADDIN ZOTERO_BIBL {"uncited":[],"omitted":[],"custom":[]} CSL_BIBLIOGRAPHY Cathy O’Neil, author of “Weapons of Math Destruction,” on the dark side of big data - Los Angeles Times. (n.d.). Retrieved December 20, 2019, from https://www.latimes.com/books/jacketcopy/la-ca-jc-cathy-oneil-20161229-story.html

Chalabi, M. (2016, October 27). Weapons of Math Destruction: Cathy O’Neil adds up the damage of algorithms. The Guardian. Retrieved from https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/oct/27/cathy-oneil-weapons-of-math-destruction-algorithms-big-data