An introduction to statistics for the layman.

The book begins with some fun statistical findings, which I enjoy. It was reminiscent of Freakonomics (which Levitt co-authored) in that sense. The only thing it adds to it is a verbose explanation of how “super crunching,” a.k.a. statistical analysis, is changing the world by making better predictions than a human expert would. About 10% better, actually.

The book was way less entertaining than Freakonomics because it actually tried to explain regressions and confidence intervals. Those are like the first things they teach you in an introductory stats class. I believe that most people don’t take statistics classes, but anyone remotely interested in this book would’ve taken one. I think this book pretty much missed its mark here. By the end, I was getting a little annoyed at being treated like a dolt.