When Not to Trust the Algorithm

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🗓️ 6 October 2016

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Cathy O'Neil, author of "Weapons of Math Destruction" on how data can lead us astray–from HR to Wall Street.

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0:00.0	If you work with early career professionals, my colleagues at
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0:08.4	Young Professional's Guide to Building a Meaningful Career on your own terms.
0:11.9	Share New Here with the Young Professionals in your life. a meaningful career on your own terms.
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0:15.9	Listen for free wherever you got your podcasts.
0:18.6	Just search new here. Welcome to the HBO Ideacast from Harvard Business Review. I'm Walter Frick and I'm here in the studio with Kathy O'Neill
0:36.0	Data scientist and blogger at math babe.org
0:38.0	co-host of the slate money podcast
0:40.0	and author of the new book
0:42.0	Weapons of Math Destruction.
0:44.0	Kathy thanks for being here.
0:45.0	So glad to be here.
0:46.0	There's a lot of things I like about the book and I want to talk in a minute about
0:49.0	some of the examples that you have that are more managerial.
0:52.0	We'll talk about hiring and
0:53.7	employee management, but to start I was hoping maybe you could just tell us a little
0:57.8	bit about how you came to write this book and specifically the book opens with
1:02.3	you as a data scientist on Wall Street
1:04.3	tell us a little bit about how you got there and then how you went from there to the
1:07.6	author of this book. So I mean I'm a mathematician I'm a math nerd I've been a math
1:11.9	nerd ever since playing with spirographs when I was five and like
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