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06-07-06, 02:15 PM
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Who has read this book? Thoughts?
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06-07-06, 02:24 PM
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Originally Posted by PHBeerman Who has read this book? Thoughts? | You can read? I thought you lived in Idaho 
I read the book and I thought it was pretty insightful and well reasoned. As such I don't recall seeing anything I wanted to dispute, which is rare.
-E.
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06-07-06, 02:29 PM
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Originally Posted by Urrrk You can read? I thought you lived in Idaho
I read the book and I thought it was pretty insightful and well reasoned. As such I don't recall seeing anything I wanted to dispute, which is rare.
-E. | This coming from someone who lives in WA? Hello pot, I am kettle.
There were several sections of the book which I would probably want to explore further before forming a concrete opinion. However, I found the brilliance of the book to lie in the simplistic details. Plus, I loved the fact that the authors were unafraid of the controversial issues. After reading the first chapter where they relate decreasing crime rates to the Roe vs. Wade decision I was hooked. | |
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06-07-06, 02:34 PM
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| I bought it after skimming the chapter about naming children. Just skimming that one chapter had me hooked.
I'll get to it soon. (It's sitting on the top of the "to Read" pile at home)
Have you seen the website? I looked it up and there's a Blog type thing where one of the authors of the book posts up a new correlation every once in a while and it gets discussed.
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......despite a surfeit of obfuscation...
| Okay now I have to buy it.
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06-07-06, 03:33 PM
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Originally Posted by sisukid1975 Have you seen the website? I looked it up and there's a Blog type thing where one of the authors of the book posts up a new correlation every once in a while and it gets discussed.
Fred | http://www.freakonomics.com/blog/
Been reading it for a while....
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06-07-06, 03:52 PM
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| There's a link and story there about a guy eating monkey chow and blogging about it.
Truly disturbing.
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06-07-06, 04:02 PM
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Originally Posted by miletwo There's a link and story there about a guy eating monkey chow and blogging about it.
Truly hilarious. | Fixed it for you. | |
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06-07-06, 08:25 PM
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| I saw a doc about it and the author. I haven't read it yet, but anyone who pisses off radicals from both sides deserves some attention. I think there are a few who tried to debunk the numbers (I think he is a math professor, maybe at NWestern), but again, I think he has some interesting theories, and no apparent bias.
His view on dropping crimes rates being linked to abortion legalization 16-18 years prior was discussed briefly IIRC)
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06-07-06, 10:07 PM
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| I havent gotten around to reading it but it is my girlfriends favorite book.
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06-07-06, 11:15 PM
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Originally Posted by PHBeerman This coming from someone who lives in WA? Hello pot, I am kettle. | Apparently, the Seattle area is the most educated city in the country. Which surprises me, as it seems like it would lead the nation in percentage of people who dropped out of college to follow the Dead, or Phish, or join the pro hacky-sack tour.
Of course the likely missing correlation (in the spirit of the book) is that all those unwashed bastards following the Dead around were probably graduate students. Quote: |
Originally Posted by PHBeerman There were several sections of the book which I would probably want to explore further before forming a concrete opinion. However, I found the brilliance of the book to lie in the simplistic details. Plus, I loved the fact that the authors were unafraid of the controversial issues. After reading the first chapter where they relate decreasing crime rates to the Roe vs. Wade decision I was hooked. | It made me wish my full time job was looking at data and investigating the surprising correlations I found. That book is Statistics Porn.
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