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Real estate agents are not our friends...

When I went to make this post, amazingly, there wasn’t a category for books?  Its almost like we aren’t big readers.  Anyway, its been a long time since I’ve been looking for time to read.  But this book is great. 

Its not political, its really a book about using data to prove the conventional wisdom wrong.  It talks about why crime really went down, teachers cheat on standardized tests, sumo wrestlers are incentived to conspire, and how real estate agents are not the advocate you may think they are.

IgDomer who would like it the most: Doug

IgDomer who would like it the least: Smith

Filed by niekamp10 at February 29th, 2008 under Books

You’re dead one. I read it a couple years ago and loved it.

Comment by Dougger — February 29, 2008 @ 10:04 am

I’m a dead one? Or I’m dead on?

Comment by niekamp10 — February 29, 2008 @ 11:53 am

Spelling is hard.

Comment by Dougger — February 29, 2008 @ 12:52 pm

I’ve been wanting to read this one for a while. Think it came out about a year or two ago.

Heard the guy on the radio a while back talking about how sometimes data from two different areas are used to show some relation that people commonly buy into, but in reality the areas have nothing to do with each other and are completely unlikely to affect each other.

Comment by JOHN — March 2, 2008 @ 2:32 am

Yes, specifically causality vs correlation. If areas have higher crime, we hire more police.

Thus, a correlation exists that in areas with more police, there is more crime. Of course, removing the police would not remove the crime, thus its just correlation, not causality.

Good stuff.

Comment by niekamp10 — March 3, 2008 @ 9:20 am

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