Sorry to those who feel that this book is "ground-breaking", but really I feel that this is a series of interesting stories that are corroborated with interesting data analysis, that hold an America-centric point of view and offer little in terms of valuable information or alternative methods of thought. There were moments that I really enjoyed (observations on the KKK and drug dealers in America were quite fascinating) but others that I felt argued premeditated points that apply very much to a money-guided American system (the idea of incentive as the only human motivator, or parenting data being compared to test scores alone, disregarding other forms of development outside of standardised testing, a system that is problematic enough in itself).

I think that if you are interested in data analysis presented in a journalistic fashion with an interesting and "ground-breaking" theory behind it, you would do better to look at "Simplexity", a journalist's observations on the research of Murray Gell-Mann and the Santa Fe Institute into complex theory.