In Invisible Women Caroline Criado Perez investigates how the questions we ask and the data we collect can leave us with giant blind spots and provide us with faulty solutions. As you would suspect from the title, the data gap she is most focused on is the one that sets male as default human and ignores female. She takes a look at what data we collect and how that colors the results and impacts the lives of women and girls in daily life, the workplace, design, going to the doctor, public life, and when disasters strike. While doing this she makes a very convincing case about the existence of this data gap and the pervasively negative impact of it. All of this is made even more disheartening as it looks like we as a society are beginning to place our judgment calls in the hands of seemingly impartial pseudo AIs. Which means these programs will make their decisions based on the incomplete data we give them and all the needs of the unconsidered will fall through the cracks.
This book was an easy, interesting read though it definitely leaves you feeling discouraged by what it has to say. I would recommend it to anyone and would hope that all those who read it come away with their blinders off.
