Jeff P. (jeffp) reviewed This would have been better if it was a LOT shorter on 9/2/2008 + 201 more book reviews

Too much repetition and no useful suggestions for how to improve one's thin-slicing abilities mar this work. What it does reasonably well - if with too much repetition - is summarize research and stories about people's ability to quickly make useful (or poor) judgements. If it had been a 3 page magazine article it would have been fine. As a book it's too long for the content it contains. And even that could be forgiven if it actually gave useful suggestions on how to get better at the skills it discusses.

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