Community Reviews. Showing Average rating 3. Rating details. Sort order. Aug 22, Vegard Pettersen rated it it was ok Recommends it for: Conservatives, americans, law-students.
I may be overly critical in my rating. The book starts out well and with good intentions, but the author's background is in law and not in psychology, and my impression is that he lacks perspective in game-theory to successfully explain the relevance and meaning of some of the consensus-dissent experiments he refers to.
Also I'm biased in that I am getting a conservative vibe from the way he speaks about conservative dissent not being welcome on campuses. I find that irrelevant and biased, given t I may be overly critical in my rating. I find that irrelevant and biased, given that I believe the dissent he speaks of is unreasonable. What's good is that it talks about cognitive psychology effects such as cascades, meaning an early consensus quickly becomes too costly or risky to challenge.
It also talks about how usefull it is to have a mix of dissenting views in an organisation, and how different types of dissent are either usefull or just contrarian. It also makes an attempt at talking about at which points in a decision-making process dissent is usefull and when it is simply polarizing. I suppose from an objective point of view, I ought to have given it a three, but compared to say the book "Super-cooperators", it's more of a light-weight.
I found myself rushing through the last quarter just to finish it, and I think I ought to read it again later, making notes as I go to keep track. Overall I can recommend it if you don't have a large backlog of books to read. View 2 comments. Feb 19, Robert rated it it was amazing. As someone currently attending law school, Cass Sunstein is a name that has become very familiar to me over the past three years.
However, graduate school was not where I first encountered the author. My sophomore year of college, I picked up this book in my school's library, flipped through a few pages, and was impressed enough to buy my own copy.
Based on the Holmes Lectures given at Harvard, Mr. Sunstein has a crafted a book that takes note that what are currently unpopular opinions often bec As someone currently attending law school, Cass Sunstein is a name that has become very familiar to me over the past three years. Sunstein has a crafted a book that takes note that what are currently unpopular opinions often become future gospel.
Because societies that fail to adapt naturally stagnate, Western civilization has often encouraged and unfortunately also punished people willing to think outside the box. This book is skillfully argues why that encouragement is a good thing. Although at times Mr. Sunstein can wade a bit too far into the weeds of statistics and abstract theory, he successfully avoids the jargon that makes so many law review articles unreadable.
Whether a lawyer or a layman, if you have a passion for free speech, this might be the book for you. Jun 01, Ann Michael rated it it was amazing. I think this book is brilliant. It's clear enough that the layperson can understand some challenging statistical and psycho-social research; Sunstein's argument is pretty sound and based a bit on the work of Daniel Kahneman, whose work I also appreciate.
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