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Weapons of math destruction (Paperback, 2016, Allen Lane) 4 stars

A former Wall Street quant sounds an alarm on the mathematical models that pervade modern …

Remarks on beleaguered university presidents forced to chase U.S. News rankings, "dedicating enormous energy toward boosting performance in fifteen areas defined by a group of journalists at a second-tier newsmagazine."

This 2016 book neatly predicts the crises of the last year — and cautions that these rankings are just one example of widely applied, opaque, caustic algorithms.