"With recidivism algorithms, for example, I worry about racist outcomes. With personality tests [for hiring], I worry about filtering out people with mental health problems from jobs. And with a teacher value-added model algorithm [used in New York City to score teachers], I worry literally that it's not meaningful. That it's almost a random number generator."

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Source : Source: www.salon.com

Cathy O'Neil

#Meaningful Quotes #Teacher Quotes #New York Quotes

“I can count all the lovers I've had on one hand...if I'm holding a calculator.”
“Yet if we are to live fully, we must love as though we've never been hurt, dream as though our hopes have never been dashed, and take steps toward the future as though life has never given us pain.”

Source : Rhonda Britten (2002). “Fearless Living”, p.145, Penguin
“We laughed and laughed, together and separately, out loud and silently, we were determined to ignore whatever needed to be ignored, to build a new world from nothing if nothing in our world could be salvaged, it was one of the best days of my life, a day during which I lived my life and didn't think about my life at all.”
“Forty-one rules aren't so many - St. Benedict had 73 to keep the brethren on the straight and narrow.”

Source : Colman McCarthy (1977). “The pleasures of the game: the theory free guide to golf”
“When in times of turmoil and breakup, do not cut or shave your head, because it will never end well.”
“I like the fact that people are surprised by my age. I like the fact that I get carded.”

Source : Source: www.glamour.com
“And when you get an eminent journal like Time magazine complaining, as it often has, that to the young writers of today life seems short on rewards and that what they write is a product of their own neuroses, in its silly way the magazine is merely stating the status quo and obvious truth. The good writing of any age has always been the product of someone's neurosis, and we'd have a mighty dull literature if all the writers that came along were a bunch of happy chuckleheads.”
“No man is hurt but by himself. ...Literally by how he interprets what happens to him. If he focusses on how it could have been better, he will be hurt. If he focusses on how it could have been worse, he will be happy. The same is true for women too.”

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