Title: Too light on the science
Product review: I consider myself a layperson interested in science, but I do have a reasonable background in statistics. This book may be interesting to people completely new to that field, but if you have studied anything similar, I'd recommend you skip this book. Here's a simple test: do you know what a regression analysis is? If not, buy; if yes, don't.Many of the ideas presented here are not particularly surprising. There's a huge section claiming that houses with swimming pools are more dangerous to children than houses with guns. That may raise your eyebrows, but it's certainly not a secret that children, left unsupervised, can drown in swimming pools. That's why hotel pools are locked at night, and why during the day, they are often staffed by people called "lifeguards".I also found it rather bizarre that each chapter is prefaced with an excerpt heaping praise upon one of the authors, including one that describes, heaven help us all, his modesty. TA-cky.
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