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Don’t Trust Your Gut: Using Data Instead of Instinct to Make Better Choices by Seth Stephens-Davidowitz
- shows how big data can help us find answers to some of the most important questions and how these answers can improve our lives.

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I work in high tech and work with data, a lot of data. This book is well written and the author challenge the idea that you have to trust your gut.
Data don't lie but they can be wrong or can be read in the wrong way.
I partly agree with the author but I recommend this book as data are becoming a commodity and you must know how to use them.
Recommended.
Many thanks to the publisher and Netgalley for this ARC, all opinions are mine

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“Don’t Trust Your Gut” by renowned data scientist Seth Stephens-Davidowitz implores us to ignore our intuition or “gut feelings” and instead put our trust in empirical data.
From the off, Seth’s book seems at odds with what we are usually told by the various commentators on the subject, which is that we should always trust our instincts, but this book is a well-written, lucid and incredibly interesting counter-argument which challenges our preconceptions. Data, he argues, can better help us achieve our life goals, and fans of data statistics will be in their element reading this.
I remain unconvinced by Seth’s claims, but I thoroughly enjoyed having my beliefs questioned and can fully recommend this book.

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I love this book, going so far as to say it is potentially life changing!!

Despite the title, this is NOT a book about microbiomes - it is way more interesting...

The author seems to love data, and uses it wisely to help us understand more about things we are all interested in....what makes us happier, wealthier, achieve better outcomes for our kids, look better, have better relationships, achieve sporting success (this is not an exhaustive list!).

I found this book fascinating, eye opening, and pretty humorous too! I cant recommend this book highly enough.

My thanks to NetGalley, author and publisher for the opportunity to review this book in exchange for an advance copy.

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If you like data sets and statistics then you will enjoy this book. Using data to confirm or challenge preconceptions about life, but do you agree.? Interesting concept and if you always follow your instinct then you will have to ask yourself some questions. Your mind may not be changed however challenging some of our own personal beliefs is very interesting. Thank you #NetGalley for the copy of this book in return for a review.

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