I’m reading Cathy O’Neil’s “Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy,” and one of the examples she discusses in the chapter on job markets is Gild, a start-up which tries to predict for internet companies which programmers are best to hire by looking for correlations between their coding product and their web surfing habits, even if there’s no actual causal link that can be proved.
One example she points to, from this article, is that coding output is strongly linked to spending time on an unnamed “particular Japanese manga site.” They include this in their model even without doing any rigorous testing to prove a link.
If you’re a computer programmer looking for a job, it is theoretically possible that you are punished for not reading hentai.
