Book Summary: "Freakonomics part 1" by Steven D. Levitt

[distatic]

5:48 Come on!!

Are they really telling us that "Thomas Ferguson, Investment Theory of Politics" is not true...?

[MillyVanillification]

Cheating is not a streight way in all cultures. In fact, its most common in the anglosaxon world. Where I live, cheating is for assholes.

[Tbaum1292]

I wish a real person were doing this...

[ewupawly]

lol they spelled rogue wrong

[MillyVanillification]

@ewupawly Depends if you refer to rouge (this is french for the color "red") or to the word rogue.

[xxlimpyleg]

you ever notice levitt looks better with age?

[TalibansRus]

Because

1) Knowledge is obligatory for every Human (meaning u must always Seek Knowledge- even if u have 2 relocate or die trying)

2) Blind Faith and ingnorance is the worste of beliefs and ignoarnce and is forbidden?

[TalibansRus]

The Taliban Approve this Book

[suzettegm]

And why is that???

[DastardlyDimwit]

he's a taliban apparently, and thinks he speaks for the organization. I'm pretty sure abortion is frowned upon by the taliban, or really any fundamentalist organization

[agespages]

the greed or 'want' of perfecting the income generating machine (business,stocks,real estate etc.) for man, has created a perfect way for finding the truth for any question possible, through an INPUT of economics' statistical procedures which gives an OUTPUT (REALITY)

[Canonpixmalogitechko]

correlation or causation?

cum hoc ergo propter hoc methinks.

[Almangour]

all economists know (including lavitt!) that correlations are not causations. That's one of the criticism on lavitt's analysis. Also his inconsistency in using some econometric techniques in his analysis is another. But who cares, it made him a best-seller author. No?..

[Canonpixmalogitechko]

Haha! true that, I'm just concerned about people who are too stupid to take this kind of information with a grain of salt (like whoever wrote the script for this video.)

[rl0u8888]

Hehe, that is true, correlation only measures association. I actually learned this from my Ap stats class, and not my econ.

Hmmmm, but something this simple has really gotten me thinking. :3 thanks.

[danieljohn77]

Where did they find this narrator? Is it Stephen Hawkin's sister!?

[suzettegm]

The Freaks of nations...

[suesaleh]

I appreciate your humor, don't get me wrong.

Have a great day. Proust!

[suesaleh]

I think I just saw the hidden side of this book. It's a great book, But it's promoting guns. Comparing guns and swimming pools, and that the crime rate going down wasn't affected by stricter gun laws.

[suzettegm]

Sir,I like your train of thought,you should write a book as well.But I think you've got it wrong here.The hidden message is: "beware of dating online, he might be a real estate agent in a Ku Klux Klan disguise"

[suzettegm]

Sir, I like your astuteness. But maybe you've got it wrong here. I think the hidden message is:"beware of online dating,he might be a real estate agent in a Ku Klux Klan disguise.

[suesaleh]

Bring it on, I know I'm going to get blasted for this comment. It was just an angle you could look through, I'm not saying this is it. If you take it as you did in a "conspiracy theory kind of way" I'm glad you see the humor in it though.

[suzettegm]

Sir, ok, so I'm Dutch, but I do have a sense of humour. I was trying to express my admiration for the original angle of your comment. Sincerely.

[cgleek]

A great summary of a terrible, incomplete, and (most often) incorrect book.

[suzettegm]

Why are you saying that? Incomplete,ok, but why terrible and (most often) incorrect?