SuperCrunchers: The Good and The Bad

September 14, 2007

SuperCrunchers: The Good and The Bad

Filed under: Jack Covert Selects,Uncategorized — Todd Sattersten @ 2:46 pm

Good News: Today Ian Ayres’ SuperCunchers debuted on the Wall Street Journal Business Bestseller List at #13.

Bad News: The book is also reviewed in this week’s New York Times Book Review and reviewer David Leonhardt comes up just short of accusing Ayres of plagiarism (and by short, I mean, the only thing he doesn’t do is use the word ‘plagiarism’). Leonhardt claims Ayres uses his own words as well as those of Fast Company’s Charles Fishman without attribution.

My opinion: the book is still a great survey of using analytics in decision making. We recommended Super Crunchers in an August Jack Covert Selects and I interviewed Ian for our podcast series.

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Anonymous

Apparently, there are now nine cases of Ayres taking from others that have been identified in Ayres’ book.
http://www.yaledailynews.com/articles/view/21638
“The News found nine passages in the book similar to or the same as sentences from articles printed in the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, the Wall Street Journal, the San Diego Union-Tribune and Fast Company magazine.”
http://www.batterycomfort.com comfort

a good read.