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Andrew Pole is a talented statistician who used Target’s extensive data to build an algorithm to determine if its customers are pregnant. While Pole’s success demonstrates how companies and organizations can gain an edge by manipulating consumers’ habits, it also shows that this kind of manipulation carries dangerous ethical implications.
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As Pole’s computer program crawled through the data, he was able to identify about twenty-five different products that, when analyzed together, allowed him to, in a sense, peer inside a woman’s womb. Most important, he could guess what trimester she was in—and estimate her due date—so Target could send her coupons when she was on the brink of making new purchases. By the time Pole was done, his program could assign almost any regular shopper a “pregnancy prediction” score.
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Andrew Pole Quotes in The Power of Habit
The The Power of Habit quotes below are all either spoken by Andrew Pole or refer to Andrew Pole . For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
).
Chapter 7
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As Pole’s computer program crawled through the data, he was able to identify about twenty-five different products that, when analyzed together, allowed him to, in a sense, peer inside a woman’s womb. Most important, he could guess what trimester she was in—and estimate her due date—so Target could send her coupons when she was on the brink of making new purchases. By the time Pole was done, his program could assign almost any regular shopper a “pregnancy prediction” score.
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