My wahine left me unattended in Chapters the other day and in a vain attempt to appear less obsessed about Nazi’s I bought this book on, well it’s not economics, it’s really a couple of guys who decide to pick some really large data sets, like the results of the Chicago public school system SAT’s or the Japanese Sumo Federation fight results or even names registered for new birth in California, and go mining for interesting causality or correlation.
I had hoped this book would be a little more “in depth” than it was but it ended up being an awful lot of anecdote and short on hard facts. There were some interesting outcomes, I know a lot more about Real Estate Agents now than I did before working my way through this book.
But, being written for the masses, the book has it’s shortcomings and feels more like a series of Salon articles stacked together and bound. Each chapter sits individually and doesn’t build a central theme or argument. I always find books like this a bit pappy and unsatisfying. Good in the bathroom.
