Seth Stephens-Davidowitz is more than a data scientist. He is a prophet for how to use the data
revolution to reimagine your life. Don't Trust Your Gut is a tour de force?an intoxicating
blend of analysis humor and humanity.? ? Daniel H. Pink #1 New York Times bestselling author
of When Drive and To Sell Is Human Big decisions are hard. We consult friends and family
make sense of confusing ?expert? advice online maybe we read a self-help book to guide us. In
the end we usually just do what feels right pursuing high stakes self-improvement?such as who
we marry how to date where to live what makes us happy?based solely on what our gut instinct
tells us. But what if our gut is wrong? Biased unpredictable and misinformed our gut it
turns out is not all that reliable. And data can prove this. In Don't Trust Your Gut
economist former Google data scientist and New York Times bestselling author Seth
Stephens-Davidowitz reveals just how wrong we really are when it comes to improving our own
lives. In the past decade scholars have mined enormous datasets to find remarkable new
approaches to life's biggest self-help puzzles. Data from hundreds of thousands of dating
profiles have revealed surprising successful strategies to get a date data from hundreds of
millions of tax records have uncovered the best places to raise children data from millions of
career trajectories have found previously unknown reasons why some rise to the top. Telling
fascinating unexpected stories with these numbers and the latest big data research
Stephens-Davidowitz exposes that while we often think we know how to better ourselves the
numbers disagree. Hard facts and figures consistently contradict our instincts and demonstrate
self-help that actually works?whether it involves the best time in life to start a business or
how happy it actually makes us to skip a friend's birthday party for a night of Netflix on the
couch. From the boring careers that produce the most wealth to the old-school data-backed
relationship advice so well-worn it's become a literal joke he unearths the startling
conclusions that the right data can teach us about who we are and what will make our lives
better. Lively engrossing and provocative the end result opens up a new world of
self-improvement made possible with massive troves of data. Packed with fresh entertaining
insights Don't Trust Your Gut redefines how to tackle our most consequential choices one that
hacks the market inefficiencies of life and leads us to make smarter decisions about how to
improve our lives. Because in the end the numbers don't lie.
