Wednesday, April 30, 2008

A Book in Review – Freakonomics

Book Count: 34

Freakonomics By: Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner
Non-Fiction: economics, life, misc. 204 pages 2005

As this book was a New York Times Bestseller you might already have seen or heard all about this book already. If not then the main idea of this book is to use data to find the hidden links between things and to see if common knowledge is really correct on different things. For example it looks at which is more of a threat to your kids: guns or pools and if your name has any effect on your life using collections of data and analyzing it. After reading this book I learned some interesting things and would recommend it to others. It was well written and included the data in a way that was not boring or dry.

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