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Analysis Of Freakonomics: The New Generation Of Economics

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Freakonomics: The New Generation of Economics
Chapter one explains about the intention of someone cheating. Cheating is a complex network of people taking advantage of a subject or someone. Often people cheat because they don’t want to disappoint academically or they have manipulated their mentality. “With high-stakes testing has so radically changed the incentives for teachers that they too now have added reason to cheat” (Dubner and Levitt 23). Levitt tries to explain that teachers will take the approach to try and get better test scores by reworking student’s tests so they could get a pay raise. However, this only teaches teachers to try and cheat the system. Chicago Public Schools …show more content…

“It was a Klan custom, for instance, to append a Kl for many words” (55). The Ku-Klux-Klan used information asymmetry such as the “Kl” talk to conduct secret meetings and give information without making it obvious. Real estate agents will use a variety of words to use like fantastic and great neighborhood, but this doesn’t mean much. Agents will use terms like Granite or State-of-the-art to try and increase a price of a home (71-72). I think it is unethical to use information asymmetry. People will always take advantage of someone unless they do the proper research. Information Asymmetry is a dying concept because of the internet being a massive database that could easily destroys the “secret” information. With information asymmetry, it has impacted Capitalism by destroying an idea of free-market and honest competition. The one time I was victim of information asymmetry was paying too much for baseball tickets. I found out the scalper overcharged me and the seats we had gotten were from further from what we were supposed to …show more content…

Correlation is a data trend between two different events that are affecting each other at once. A causation is the action of causing another event to happen. An example where causation could get confused with correlation is if a child brings a topic about books or school. This child is then likely to be very successful in the future. Freakonomics also discusses the study called the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study which was a study of how kids did in school from Kindergarden to 5th grade based on how well they did in school. It was conducted by the U.S Department of Education. The data implies it is the parent’s fault for not giving the child a good education that they deserve. If they have a lack of resources, they are unlikely to succeed in school (168-169). Whatever the parent has for the child will likely determine the success rate. There will likely be a few outliers that motivate themselves to prove this data wrong, but the data is logical. Someone is likely to succeed more if they are given the tools from a parent who has been also very educated then a child who has a parent that is uneducated (170). I think this is not a case of causation, but a case of correlation. Parent’s who have succeed in life always will give a lot more motivation and resources than a parent who likely is working a job without much motivation and a lack of resources (175). A causation is another event that is led from a previous event. The parent is likely not to motivate if this is the

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The book Freakonomics by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner talks about many different things, including cheating teachers and sumo wrestlers, how abortion lowered crime rates, how a street crack gang works, and whether the way parents raise their children even matter. These topics seem to have nothing in common, but all of these topics were identified in the same way: an economist (Levitt) looked at school test scores, crime data, and all sorts of other information, looking at them in unconventional ways. Because of that, he has come to many interesting and unique conclusions that make complete sense. These findings were based on some simple ideas: the power of incentives, conventional wisdom is not always right, things may not have obvious causes, and experts often serve their own interests instead of the interests of others. Perhaps the most important idea in the book is, as Levitt and Dubner state, “Knowing what to measure and how to measure it makes a complicated world much less so” (14).

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Correlation: correlation is the connection between two things. There is positive and negative correlation. It is important to remember that correlation is not always causation. Just because two things have, a connection does not mean one causes the other. 3.

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The reader observes how, in this case, the incentives of money and success caused teachers to go against what is right and cheat. Bagels, a completely unrelated subject to teachers, is another topic that Levitt and Dubner present in the text in order to show that even rich individuals who may not have to worry about the incentive of money still conduct themselves in a erroneous manner and commit “white-collar crime” (46) by not paying for bagels in the workplace. There are many other topics even more diverse than school teachers and bagels that are discussed in Freakonomics, but even with this variability, the purpose Levitt and Dubner are proving is shown in each

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Freakonomics is somewhat random grab bag of topics. The unifying theme of this book for me was finding ways to ask questions so that one's available statistics and data can provide an answer, time after time they used available statistics to provide some time of reasoning or answers to the question being asked. Some of these efforts were more successful than others. Some of the questions Levitt and Dubner study felt unnecessary, that no one really cares about. But there are also some good subjects.

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In chapter four of Freakonomics, Levitt and Dubner discuss the criminal activity occurring in the United states and what the possible causes are for the decrease of crime rate in the 1990’s. The authors bring up several theories as to why the crime rates have decreased such as policemen, stricter gun laws, drug market changes and even abortion laws. Levitt and Dubner do a really good job in explaining the different theories in the decrease of crimes. The authors also provide very interesting points that might make you think differently about something. Some factors may seem hard to believe but it can cause a great impact in society like abortion.

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