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Guns Are Safer Than Swimming Pools

CorrectMeIfIAmRight @CorrectMeIfIAmRight (52) • United States 5 Nov 09

In the book Freakonomics, written by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner, roughly 550 children under the age of 10 will drown each year in a swimming pool yet roughly 175 children under the age of 10 will die each year from...

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Lies, lies, lies.

celestemichelle @celestemichelle (429) • United States 24 Jun 08

I recently read an article on the freakonomics blog on nytimes.com about why people lie. People lie all the time. Most of them are "white lies" or "social lies" that are used just to make relationships easier, but sometimes you...

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A change in perspective

tentwo67 @tentwo67 (3382) • United States 3 Sep 07

I have looked at this book, Freakonomics, in the bookstore several times before. The cover is fascinating, with the apple/orange graphic. But I never paid all that much attention to it. Then I checked it out of the library and the...

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Has anyone read the book Freakonomics?

mcrowl @mcrowl (1050) • New Zealand 20 Jun 07

I picked up the second and revised edition of this book while waiting for a plane last week, and have found it absorbing reading. Only in a couple of places did I find that the information was just too much. Overall, this is the...

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Do you believe in the Freakonomics behind our names?

alexandrie @alexandrie (37) • Philippines 7 Apr 07

You can google which book this concept came from. The idea is that highly educated mothers pick more creative names. Additionally, our names indicate, to some extent, the level of success we can expect to achieve.

naming children

Freakonmics

lee828 @lee828 (12) • United States 15 Feb 07

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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