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• Superfreakonomics: Geoengineering

  
  Voting While Intoxicated — Authority: 135
  They state multiple times in the book that the law of unintended consequences is the most powerful principle as it relates to human behavior. Yet, from battling natural disaster to global warming, they seem eager to jump on board to so rather radical steps that would seem to be vulnerable to unintended consequences. ...
  2 days ago

• Superfreakonomics: Car Seats

  
  Voting While Intoxicated — Authority: 135
  As it turns out, I already tackled this issue before without knowing it was part of the book. I should say the books treatment is a little better than what I gleaned from the two academic papers from Levitt that I responded to in my prior post. He is very open in saying that the advantage of child car seats in mild ...
  2 days ago

• Saskatoon has a substance abuse problem

  
  JordonCooper.com — Authority: 546
  Last night Wendy , Mark , and Oliver came along as I picked up Christmas kettles at the malls and collect them to be counted.  As I was driving from Wal-Mart in Confederation Mall along 22nd Street to Midtown Plaza.   A women just walked out in front of three lanes of incoming traffic.  Below is a screen ...
  3 days ago

• Wednesday Night Links

  
  Gerry Canavan — Authority: 146
  * The strategic genius in charge of the economy had an adjustable rate mortgage? No wonder everything collapsed. * Also on Bernanke watch: Matt Yglesias on class biases in major media. Bernanke takes office in February of 2006 holding what’s probably the second most-important job in the United States and the ...
  6 days ago

• Star Wars Game Theory - Freakonomics BlogFor folks not...

  
  Life is a Thrill — Authority: 139
  Star Wars Game Theory - Freakonomics Blog For folks not acquainted with game theory, the numbers and assessments are explained in the comments.
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• Sacrificing Science At The Alter Of Contrarianism

  
  Voting While Intoxicated — Authority: 135
  Steven Levitt responds to criticism of the walking while drunk section I blogged about yesterday…and I am rather unsatisfied. He is just too quick to let the impact of what he says slide off: Obviously, I’ve left out all sorts of other costs and benefits in this simple analysis that could tip the balance one ...
  1 week ago

• What Bothers People About SuperFreakonomics?

  
  Fuck Bankers — Authority: 170
  In SuperFreakonomics , far and away the most common subject of emails is drunk walking vs. drunk driving. In particular, every few days someone writes us to tell us that our analysis is wrong because we are comparing the rate of death per mile driven drunk versus the rate of death per mile walked drunk. Sure, they ...
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• What Bothers People About SuperFreakonomics?

  
  Gulag Blog — Authority: 170
  In SuperFreakonomics , far and away the most common subject of emails is drunk walking vs. drunk driving. In particular, every few days someone writes us to tell us that our analysis is wrong because we are comparing the rate of death per mile driven drunk versus the rate of death per mile walked drunk. Sure, they ...
  1 week ago

• What Bothers People About SuperFreakonomics?

  
  Freakonomics — Authority: 693
  In SuperFreakonomics , far and away the most common subject of emails is drunk walking vs. drunk driving. In particular, every few days someone writes us to tell us that our analysis is wrong because we are comparing the rate of death per mile driven drunk versus the rate of death per mile walked drunk. Sure, they ...
  1 week ago

• Education Needs To Take A Trip

  
  Education Innovation — Authority: 120
  Trust. We all want it, but do we all give it? It is a crucial issue for teachers and administrators. Chapter 3 of the book The Collaborative Administrato r is titled “Trust: The Secret Ingredient to Successful Shared Leadership.” Trust is a key to school success. “What then should a principal do to lay ...
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• Superfreakonomics: The Dangers of WUI

  
  Voting While Intoxicated — Authority: 135
  In my first of what I imagine will be multiple posts related to Superfreakonomics, I’d like to tackle one of the first things they talk about, ever so briefly; that walking drunk could be riskier than driving drunk, per mile. This is true, they claim, in terms of personal risk of death and, to a lesser degree, of ...
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• When contrarianism is and isnt good

  
  Backseat driving — Authority: 416
  Some examples: A contrarian business venture : excellent! May a thousand business flowers bloom! If you think Stirling engines are the wave of the future, or horse buggies, or private space planes, and want to sink your money into it, well, you go, girl! (Or guy.) Of course, most new businesses fail, even the ...
  1 week ago

• Reviews of Books I Didnt Read: SuperFreakonomics

  
  Steve Sailer's iSteve Blog — Authority: 550
  Ive been skimming a few books at the book store. Heres one: SuperFreakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes, and Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner. It must annoy U. of Chicago economist Levitt -- in a fuming all the way to the bank kinda way -- that ...
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• Do Your Educational Assumptions Provide Educational Alternatives?

  
  Education Innovation — Authority: 120
  Do your assumptions about what education should be leave you with a lack of alternatives? One of the reasons why many people, including myself, love books like Freakonomics , Super Freakonomics , Predictably Irrational , or The Economic Naturalist is that is takes our assumptions about the world around us and ...
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• CLUTCH – STRANGE COUSINS FROM THE WEST (2009)

  
  Free Download — Authority: 179
  Clutch - Strange Cousins From The West (2009)) Genre: Rock | MP3 | VBR 183kps avg | 48:52 min | 69,1 MB
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• Lobsters, Dolphins, and Super Freakonomics

  
  ScentTrail Marketing — Authority: 116
  Im sitting next to plaintive slow lobster in a round Plexiglas cage at Tony Cheng’s restaurant in Washington thinking of emergent systems. What is more emergent than my being here? Not completely random or generated by hive mind like bees to honey or ants to food. I was steered to Tony Chengs by the Marriott ...
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• Steven Levitt and Freakonomics can go to hell!

  
  Ruling Imagination: Law and Creativity — Authority: 411
  On Veterans Day I expressed my disgust and contempt for Steven Levitt (he of Freakonomics fame) because his devotion to intellectual abstraction divorced from any connection to reality is, well, disgusting and contemptuous. The specific reason for my post on that day was Levitt’s proposition that a military ...
  2 weeks ago

• A New Method to the Freakonomics Madness

  
  Gulag Blog — Authority: 170
  Contributor Ian Ayres sees two subtle shifts in methodology between Freakonomics and SuperFreakonomics .
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• A New Method to the Freakonomics Madness

  
  Fuck Bankers — Authority: 170
  Contributor Ian Ayres sees two subtle shifts in methodology between Freakonomics and SuperFreakonomics .
  2 weeks ago

• A New Method to the Freakonomics Madness

  
  Freakonomics — Authority: 693
  Contributor Ian Ayres sees two subtle shifts in methodology between Freakonomics and SuperFreakonomics .
  2 weeks ago

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