KRCB Frontline May 11, 2012
so i wasn't offended by that idea. it seemed like a pretty typical american goal, in fact. >> narrator: cathy o'neil, a mathematician, came to wall street in 2007 after beginning her career in academia. >> i went to u.c. berkeley as an undergrad. i went to harvard for grad school. and then i was a postdoc for five years at mit. and i applied to work at a hedge fund, d.e. shaw, and i got the job. and i thought, "this was great." i was a quant. a quant uses statistical methods to try to predict patterns in the market. >>arrator: h worwas used to predict when big pension funds would buy...