Description: This book offers insights into everything from economics to ethics to sports to race to sex, gender, and more, all drawn from the world of big data. Does where you go to school effect how successful you are in life? Do parents secretly favor boy children over girls? Investigating these questions and a host of others, Seth Stephens-Davidowitz offers revelations that can help us understand ourselves and our lives better.
Brief description:
Seth Stephens-Davidowitz is a contributing op-ed writer for the New York Times, a lecturer at The Wharton School, and a former Google data scientist. He received a BA from Stanford and a PhD from Harvard. His research has appeared in the Journal of Public Economics and other prestigious publications. He lives in New York City.
Review Quotes:
"This book is about a whole new way of studying the mind...an unprecedented peek into people's psyches...Endlessly fascinating."
-- "from the foreword by Steven Pinker, author of The Better Angels of Our Nature"