Super Crunchers

Ian Ayres

Why is thinking by numbers the new way to be smart, as statistics on large datasets start to beat expert judgment from wine to medicine?

At a glance

You will see how statistical predictions now shape what products are suggested to you and how a prescription is expected to work on you
You will know how standard deviation lets you move between raw numbers and your gut sense of how much something varies
You will understand why random assignment is the trusted way to test whether a medicine, a policy or any intervention really works