(Note: I decided, though grammatically incorrect, to no longer italicize the title of each book. I was doing this manually by inserting HTML tags into the page, which caused the W3C to complain. I have finally decided that I will give up on this, for now. Instead I will use quotations for the title.)
Read in December 2006.
In the same vein as The Tipping Point Levitt and Dubner ask interesting questions to explain socio-economic phenomenon. What makes the approach particularly engaging is how the questions are posed and how they are answered. Each chapter in the book is a set of questions, that relate to an socio-economic phenomenon – but he doesn’t get into the phenomenon until partway into the text.
Each chapter’s question is answered using raw data that is analyzed in a novel way. This makes the data come to life and amazes the reader into realizing that data can be exciting. Of all the praise for Levitt, this is what sings most clearly with me – his creativity in using mundane data to prove what did not seem provable makes anything he touches worth reading.
Highly recommend reading this book. Period.
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