Don't Trust Your Gut: Using Data Instead of Instinct to Make Better Choices - Brossura

Stephens-Davidowitz, Seth

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ISBN 10: 1526605104 ISBN 13: 9781526605108

Casa editrice: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2022

Riassunto

From the author of the international bestseller Everybody Lies comes a bracing, cutting-edge and hugely entertaining book about how big data can fix our lives

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Informazioni sull?autore

Seth Stephens-Davidowitz is a New York Times op-ed contributor, a visiting lecturer at the Wharton School and a former Google data scientist. He received a BA in philosophy from Stanford and a PhD in economics from Harvard. His research - which uses new, big data sources to uncover hidden behaviours and attitudes - has appeared in the Journal of Public Economics and other prestigious publications. He lives in New York City.

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When it comes to making big decisions, we might consult friends and family, read advice online or turn to self-help books for guidance. In the end, though, we usually just do what feels right. But what if our gut is wrong?

As economist and former Google data scientist Seth Stephens-Davidowitz argues, our gut is actually not that reliable – and data can prove this. In Don't Trust Your Gut, he unearths the startling conclusions that the right data can teach us about who we are and what will make our lives better. Over the past decade, scholars have mined enormous datasets to find remarkable new approaches to life's biggest self-help puzzles, from the boring careers that produce the most wealth, to old-school, data-backed relationship advice. While we often think we know how to better ourselves, the numbers, it turns out, disagree.

Telling fascinating stories through the latest big data research, Stephens-Davidowitz reveals just how wrong we really are when it comes to improving our lives, and offers a new way of tackling our most consequential choices.

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: Bloomsbury Publishing
• Data di pubblicazione: 2022
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1526605104
• ISBN 13: 9781526605108
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 320
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
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