Episode · No Stupid Questions · 2024-09-10
Books mentioned on Why Are Stories Stickier Than Statistics? (Replay) | No Stupid Questions
Stephen Dubner discussed Bible. Angela Duckworth discussed The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck. Also mentioned: Holy Bible (NIV) by Various Authors and Guinness Book of World Records.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Holy Bible (NIV)
Discussed“There was the era of BS troubadours, and you know, the Bible, the Old Testament, at least I should specify, all of which existed pre-written language. It's hard to imagine that they were passed along orally, but they were.”
Where to get it
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Bible
Discussed“think about the Bible it is the most read book in the history of the universe”
Where to get it
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Guinness Book of World Records
Discussed“according to the Guinness Book of World Records approximately 5 billion copies have been sold”
Where to get it
Other mentions in this episode (2) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Plugged Superfreakonomics
“but we went back and in our second book super Freakonomics we actually retold the story as well as we could including the incentives for the reporters involved and the police involved”
Plugged SuperFreakonomics LP
“And it turns out that if you pull apart the story of what actually happened that night—which is a little difficult to do, CU this was in the 1960s—but we went back, and in our second book, Super Freakonomics, we actually retold the story as well as we could, including the incentives for the reporters involved and the police involved.”