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> Probably the worst example I've seen first-hand was an entire retail banking loan-approval process

There's some real doozies out there. The Reinhart-Rogoff error, which was used to justify imposing austerity on Greece [0]. The UK's COVID tracing fiasco [1]. The list goes on. People using Excel have no business making decisions that affect other people's lives.

[0] https://stanfordreview.org/clarifying-the-implications-of-th...

[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-54422505

parent mathrando 5 years ago

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