Cathy O'Neil: How It's Unfair to Use Personality Tests in Hiring

WGBHForum, 2017: "In her award-winning book, Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy (2016), Cathy O'Neil shares several examples of how predictive tests and scoring mechanisms can seriously damage someone's life. The example she offers here shows how the scoring from personality tests, often used in the hiring process, can exclude entire groups of people. Sponsored by Microsoft Research's Social Media Collective and Harvard University's Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society

WGBHForum, 2017: "In her award-winning book, Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy (2016), Cathy O'Neil shares several examples of how predictive tests and scoring mechanisms can seriously damage someone's life. The example she offers here shows how the scoring from personality tests, often used in the hiring process, can exclude entire groups of people. Sponsored by Microsoft Research's Social Media Collective and Harvard University's Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society