Title: Common Sense - Somehow Hugely Popular Book
Product review: I was unimpressed by Freakonomics - not because it doesn't make some good points, but because anyone who ever took a statistics class and has the ability to question conventional wisdom has no need to read it. Yes, it's irrational to be afraid of your child being shot by a gun in your home when you have a swimming pool in the back yard. Yes, it's not comfortable to think that the rise in abortions has caused a lowering of the overall crime rate. But the numbers are not moral - they're just numbers. If you have never investigated these types of ideas, then start with Freakonomics, but I would also urge you to read a level one statistics and economics text, and also read the book "SuperCrunchers", which covers similar gound.
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