Title: "I don't want to write a book ..."
Product review: ... Levitt quotes himself (!) as saying, "unless maybe Dubner and I could do it together." The result is a strange and ugly collaboration. There are a few interesting ideas (few because it's short and very leisurely paced), but they are not so much argued as revealed, interlarded with comments (by Dubner, one hopes) about how brilliant Levitt is.It's tedious, but more important, it subverts the theme of the book. Over and over they tell us not to believe experts, to think for ourselves, to look at the data. But the presentation is so superficial and the data so thin that no reader could reach the same conclusions thinking for herself. Instead, we just have one more expert telling us the others are wrong. How fresh and radical is that?
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