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Don't Trust Your Gut

Disciplines:
behavioral economics
psychology/decision-making
artificial intelligence/data science

Summary

Seth Stephens-Davidowitz's 2022 book applying large-scale data analysis to personal life decisions — career, relationships, parenting — arguing that data consistently outperforms intuition in high-stakes choices.

Core Contribution

Applies the big-data-as-honest-signal methodology to personal decisions — showing through analysis of dating, career, and relationship data that human intuition makes systematic errors that data can correct.

Historical Influences

Seth Stephens-Davidowitz

Intellectual Lineage

Behavioral Economics Data-Driven Decision-MakingSelf-Help Literature

Allied Works

Everybody Lies Thinking, Fast and Slow Superforecasting

Contemporaries & Peers

Everybody Lies Thinking, Fast and Slow Atomic Habits

Minds Influenced

Data-driven self-improvement discourse

Intellectual Posterity

No conceptual posterity found.

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