Title: Must read for all lazy thinkers
Product review: Although the book professes to have no theme, the message I came away with was clear - people are very poor at inferring cause and effect, and so-called experts are biased by their own agenda, which leads to "common knowledge" which is faulty. If you apply good rigour to your critical thinking (along with a strong dose of data) you can become more effective at discovering root causes, and so a more effective decision maker.Not that this is a great insight; I have thought this for years, and have admired other thinkers who are able to escape the gravitational pull of common knowledge. However, the book is stuffed with examples (some good, others not-so-good) that illustrate time and again how we arrive at faulty conclusions, which Levitt methodically cleans up for us.A must read if you want to sharpen your intellect.
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