Title: A Must Read
Product review: Freakonomics challenges our presumptions and beliefs about things. The book covers incentives - the incentives to pick your child up from daycare to a teacher's incentive to cheat or a criminals incentive to commit crime. Various truths that we hold dear are challenged. Media and so called "experts" are examined and their theories are studied. Here are some of the questions answered and facts from the book:- Children are more likely to drown in a swimming pool then be killed by a gun- Where do the most popular girl and boy names come from?- Why would a teacher cheat and change her students test scores?- Why did crime decrease in the 1990s?- Does a child's name have any effect on the child's well being or is a indicator of how sucessful they might be in the future?This book is an enjoyable and shocking read.
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