TY  - BOOK
AU  - Stephen-Davidowitz, Seth
TI  - Don't trust your gut: using data to get what you really want in life 
SN  - 9781526605108
U1  - 153.83 STE-S 
PY  - 2022///
CY  - London
PB  - Bloomsbury Publishing
KW  - Big data--Social aspects
KW  - Data mining--Social aspects
KW  - Decision making--Social aspects
KW  - Self-actualization (Psychology)
KW  - Decision making
KW  - Big data
N1  - When it comes to making big decisions, we might consult friends and family, read advice online or turn to self-help books for guidance. In the end, though, we usually just do what feels right. But what if our gut is wrong? As economist and former Google data scientist Seth Stephens-Davidowitz argues, our gut is actually not that reliable – and data can prove this. In Don’t Trust Your Gut, he unearths the startling conclusions that the right data can teach us about who we are and what will make our lives better. Over the past decade, scholars have mined enormous datasets to find remarkable new approaches to life’s biggest selfhelp puzzles, from the boring careers that produce the most wealth, to old-school, data-backed relationship advice. While we often think we know how to better ourselves, the numbers, it turns out, disagree. Telling fascinating stories through the latest big data research, Stephens-Davidowitz reveals just how wrong we really are when it comes to improving our lives, and offers a new way of tackling our most consequential choices
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