The first question everybody asks when you write a book is, what were the three most shocking things you found? I tried to avoid that pressure in writing this book and really just say whatever the data said. And i didn't care whether it was surprising or obvious. Just every time, here's the data presented like a good data scientist. So i've always been really interested in the role of luck in in business. One study that i thought was pretty solid from a researches, collins and hanson,. They looked at a whole bunch of businesses, some of which had been very successful, some ofwhich hadn't been as successful.
“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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