This book hides itself well as more of a sociology-type book than economics book. I figured it must be interesting if everyone and their dog had read it, and it was. I've actually used information from this book in conversation on at least 2 occasions since reading this. I don't think I'll ever thin...
I found this book to be really fascinating. Chapter 3- Why do drug dealers still live with their moms, was very illuminating. I like the questions they posed and the connections they came up with. I was quite surprised about the American school system, especially the fact that teachers often used ch...
If this book inspires just one person to take a healthy interest in the world of statistics, that alone is a fantastic achievement.We need more evidence-based data and less guess-work. It's the only way forward, folks.I'd love to see more sociologists who can actually still back up their arguments w...
I have mixed feeling about this book. On the one hand, I enjoyed reading it, and didn't particularly find most of other's objects to be all that objectionable. One the other hand, I do feel like most of the topics covered in the book were rather uninspired. I think the book had more potential tha...
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything gets 4 Stars for out of the box thinking and puncturing liberal and conservative "conventional wisdom". Frankly I was just totally bummed out to find that one of my all-time, favorite sports--sumo wrestling--has fallen victim to ...
Liked the parts about the correlation between legalized abortion and decreased crime rates, baby names and future success, and parenting styles. Kind of disappointed to find out that reading often to your child doesn't necessarily make them smarter, but at least being a house full of books is a good...
One of the most interesting topics in Freakonomics, is that of bad assumptions in causality. These are made when people consider causality regarding a particular event, and they making assumptions that are affected by factors such as self-interest, prejudice, common sense, etc. The book shows that w...
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