The neighborhood you raise your kids in seems to matter a lot, even if everything else matters little. Little girls who move to neighborhoods with lots of fem scientists are much more likely to become scientists when they grow up. There's pretty good evidence from that research that adult roll models can be really important and how they turn out.
“You can make better life decisions. Big Data can help you.” So begins “Don’t Trust Your Gut,” a new book by Seth Stephens-Davidowitz. Seth, a former Google data scientist, has mined massive data sets in order to answer some of life’s most vexing questions: “What predicts a happy marriage?” and “How do you get rich?” and “What really makes us happy?” The answers may surprise you.
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