Story-first governing
Pay for performance, story-firsters, and trust in statistics
Chapter 1
How would we know if Google engineers really improved traffic flow at intersections
It's not easy to measure the real-world impact of optimizations.
P esteem, bosom peril, flag to clamor, and anti-tech tech
Kaiser reads about p esteems, bosom perils, and flag to clamor.
There is no such thing as objective data
Kaiser discusses one of the biggest data delusions: that data can be objective.
Self-checkout and fast passes
Kaiser blows up the myth of self-checkouts.
Reclassifying data to manufacture statistics
Kaiser looks at transfer students at Columbia.