Super Crunchers, Ian Ayres
Super Crunchers, Ian Ayres
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Super Crunchers
Why Thinking-by-Numbers Is the New Way to Be Smart

Author: Ian Ayres

Narrator: Michael Kramer

Unabridged: 7 hr 30 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 08/28/2007


Synopsis

Why would a casino try to stop a gambler from losing? How can a mathematical formula find your future spouse? Would you know if statistical analysis blackballed you from a job you wanted?

Economist Ian Ayres has spent the better part of his career examining the power in numbers. Decisions used to be made by traditional experts based on experience, intuition, and trial and error. Nowadays, cutting-edge organizations are crunching ever-larger databases to find answers. Today’s super crunchers are providing greater insights into human behavior than ever before–and predicting the future with staggeringly accurate results.

In this lively and groundbreaking audiobook, Ayres takes us behind the scenes into the bold new world of today’s super crunchers. The author sweeps over a dazzling array of topics with strange-but-true facts, wry wit, and a raconteur’s talent for the fascinating anecdote. Entertaining, enlightening, and absolutely essential, Super Crunchers is an audiobook that no businessperson, consumer, or student–statistically, that’s everyone!–should make another decision without first listening to. Thinking-by-numbers is the new way to be smart.

Author Bio

Ian Ayres is the William K. Townsend Professor at Yale Law School and the Yale School of Management. He has written for the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times, the International Herald Tribune, Scientific American, the Los Angeles Times, Slate, and the New Republic. He is also the author of the bestselling SuperCrunchers and Voting with Dollars.

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