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lee828 (7) 5 years ago

What was the most surprising thing you learned from reading Freakonomics? Do you agree with the authors' findings in regard to education and the reason for the lower crimerate in NYC?

 

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tags:  freakonomics, book, fascinating, perspective, surprising
 
1. teamabby (37)   5 years ago

it does seem to make sense - levitt pulls out the statistical data and certainly shows correlations between factors like the $25k bonus and "no child left behind" to the rate of teacher cheating, and the abortion theory is surprisingly well-argued. it's hard to believe...but far stranger things have happened. i pay it as a very probable cause.

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2. myLot reputation of 95/100. tentwo67 (2443)   ranked 2 out of 2 in freakonomics   5 years ago

I have not finished reading this yet, but I am fascinated by it. It is always so cool to take a different perspective and look at things that way. You can come up with different ideas this way, and who knows what is correct. It's really quite a book.

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