Freakonomics
This book is highly mediocre. I’m not sure why the tagline to this book is “a rogue economist explores the hidden side of everything” when the rogue economist explores exactly six super random correlation - causation case studies.
Sure, it was pleasant to learn about how legalizing abortion led to a decrease in criminalization and about how poor parents name their kids after successful rich kids. But there was no central theme to the novel, nor an understanding on why the author wrote the stories he did. Sure, the author had a mini-theme within each case study, but that wasn’t enough for me - I need a lot more than one example to be convinced that (theme example) “experts have incentives to hide information”.
I didn’t walk away from this novel with a sense of enlightenment or any profound knowledge of the world - which I fully expected to after hearing about this book nonstop for the last 10 years.
Oh well. At this least this book made statistics fun to read (for a couple of hours).