I don’t know of a single book that does all of what you are looking for, but here are a few books that come to mind.
Richard Florida’s book Who’s Your City?. Florida says that where to live is arguably the important choice a person can make regarding their future. He used a bunch of statistics (albeit with his own made-up indices) in his earlier book The Creative Class, so he probably uses some in this book too (I’ve only read bits of it.)
John Gottman has studied marriage and found what works with real couples who come to his lab. He can predict with about 90% accuracy whether a couple will be together in 10 years after listening to them discuss a contentious issue for 15 minutes. He has also written academic papers about mathematical modelling of human relationships, including how partners influence the mood of each other when one is happy and one is sad. He’s written a number of books for the general public on these topics. My favourites so far are And Baby Makes Three: The Six-Step Plan for Preserving Marital Intimacy and Rekindling Romance After Baby Arrives… and Why Marriages Succeed or Fail but they are all good, and there is some overlap of material in each of them.
Seeking out old people and listening to their stories and asking them questions that you care about might be better than reading books about them, especially since most interviewers seem to ask such generic and clicheed questions. But some people have gone out and collected stories and advice. Here’s one such project: The Legacy Project
In Opposable Mind: Winning Through Integrative Thinking, Roger Martin uses a metaphor of the opposable thumb to explain the idea of holding two opposing models of how something works in mind, until coming to a better model that supercedes them. The book has case studies and stories, but not statistics. It’s marketed as a business book, but I think it could be a life lesson sort of book too. I’m not sure whether it matches what you’re looking for.
Unfortunately, most of the time I think one has to look up the statistics for each individual issue. (As an aside, the biggest cause of personal bankruptcy in the USA is from medical bills, and as a Canadian who has universal health care I find this both appalling and explanatory of some of the differences in American and Canadian culture.)
I don’t know of a single book that does all of what you are looking for, but here are a few books that come to mind.
Richard Florida’s book Who’s Your City?. Florida says that where to live is arguably the important choice a person can make regarding their future. He used a bunch of statistics (albeit with his own made-up indices) in his earlier book The Creative Class, so he probably uses some in this book too (I’ve only read bits of it.)
John Gottman has studied marriage and found what works with real couples who come to his lab. He can predict with about 90% accuracy whether a couple will be together in 10 years after listening to them discuss a contentious issue for 15 minutes. He has also written academic papers about mathematical modelling of human relationships, including how partners influence the mood of each other when one is happy and one is sad. He’s written a number of books for the general public on these topics. My favourites so far are And Baby Makes Three: The Six-Step Plan for Preserving Marital Intimacy and Rekindling Romance After Baby Arrives… and Why Marriages Succeed or Fail but they are all good, and there is some overlap of material in each of them.
Seeking out old people and listening to their stories and asking them questions that you care about might be better than reading books about them, especially since most interviewers seem to ask such generic and clicheed questions. But some people have gone out and collected stories and advice. Here’s one such project: The Legacy Project
In Opposable Mind: Winning Through Integrative Thinking, Roger Martin uses a metaphor of the opposable thumb to explain the idea of holding two opposing models of how something works in mind, until coming to a better model that supercedes them. The book has case studies and stories, but not statistics. It’s marketed as a business book, but I think it could be a life lesson sort of book too. I’m not sure whether it matches what you’re looking for.
Unfortunately, most of the time I think one has to look up the statistics for each individual issue. (As an aside, the biggest cause of personal bankruptcy in the USA is from medical bills, and as a Canadian who has universal health care I find this both appalling and explanatory of some of the differences in American and Canadian culture.)