Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men by Caroline Criado Pérez
Published 2019 · 448 pages · 123,200 words · about 6 hours at an average pace · Nonfiction, Politics & Society, Feminist Literature
How hard is Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men to read?
Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men scores 29 out of 100 for difficulty on ReadingRate, making it relatively accessible. The score is a weighted composite of nine measures: four of how hard the prose is to parse, five of how hard the meaning is to extract.
- Vocabulary: 30 out of 100
- Criado Perez writes in plain journalistic English with occasional medical and statistical terms explained on the spot. It sits close to the accessible popular nonfiction of Atomic Habits.
- Sentence structure: 28 out of 100
- Sentences are short to medium and declarative, built for fast reading. Statistics are embedded cleanly, with none of the nested clauses found in academic theory.
- Abstraction: 35 out of 100
- Each argument rests on concrete cases such as crash dummies, thermostats and snow ploughs. The abstract concept of the data gap is always tied back to examples, much like Atomic Habits.
- Information density: 52 out of 100
- Chapters pile up studies, figures and cases across medicine, transport, work and politics. The pace is high, but each point is made quickly and clearly, so it stays somewhat denser than Atomic Habits.
How Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men is regarded
Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men holds a literary regard score of 53 out of 100, weighing its place in the canon, its critical reception, its influence on other writers, and the standing of its author. Regard is measured separately from difficulty: a demanding book is not necessarily an admired one.