#freakonomics — Public Fediverse posts
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A quotation from Steven Levitt
No one is more susceptible to an experts fearmongering than a parent. Fear is in fact a major component of the act of parenting. A parent, after all, is the steward of another creature’s life, a creature who in the beginning is more helpless than the newborn of nearly any other species. This leads a lot of parents to spend a lot of their parenting energy simply being scared.
Steven Levitt (b. 1967) American economist and author
Freakonomics, ch. 5 “What Makes A Perfect Parent?” (2005) [with Stephen Dubner]More about this quote: wist.info/levitt-steven/69301/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #freakonomics #advice #childraising #childrearing #children #fear #fearmongering #parent #parenting #protection #responsibility #scare
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A quotation from Steven Levitt
No one is more susceptible to an experts fearmongering than a parent. Fear is in fact a major component of the act of parenting. A parent, after all, is the steward of another creature’s life, a creature who in the beginning is more helpless than the newborn of nearly any other species. This leads a lot of parents to spend a lot of their parenting energy simply being scared.
Steven Levitt (b. 1967) American economist and author
Freakonomics, ch. 5 “What Makes A Perfect Parent?” (2005) [with Stephen Dubner]More about this quote: wist.info/levitt-steven/69301/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #freakonomics #advice #childraising #childrearing #children #fear #fearmongering #parent #parenting #protection #responsibility #scare
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A quotation from Steven Levitt
No one is more susceptible to an experts fearmongering than a parent. Fear is in fact a major component of the act of parenting. A parent, after all, is the steward of another creature’s life, a creature who in the beginning is more helpless than the newborn of nearly any other species. This leads a lot of parents to spend a lot of their parenting energy simply being scared.
Steven Levitt (b. 1967) American economist and author
Freakonomics, ch. 5 “What Makes A Perfect Parent?” (2005) [with Stephen Dubner]More about this quote: wist.info/levitt-steven/69301/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #freakonomics #advice #childraising #childrearing #children #fear #fearmongering #parent #parenting #protection #responsibility #scare
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A quotation from Steven Levitt
No one is more susceptible to an experts fearmongering than a parent. Fear is in fact a major component of the act of parenting. A parent, after all, is the steward of another creature’s life, a creature who in the beginning is more helpless than the newborn of nearly any other species. This leads a lot of parents to spend a lot of their parenting energy simply being scared.
Steven Levitt (b. 1967) American economist and author
Freakonomics, ch. 5 “What Makes A Perfect Parent?” (2005) [with Stephen Dubner]More about this quote: wist.info/levitt-steven/69301/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #freakonomics #advice #childraising #childrearing #children #fear #fearmongering #parent #parenting #protection #responsibility #scare
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Haven't seen a podcast decline as much as Freakonomics. From highlighting importat behavior economics to platforming a medical "professional" saying "trump derangement syndrome is real" without any pushback at all.
The other recent episodes were series on a single christian song and how horses are being traded by billionaires. Maybe it's a good time to shut freakonomics down 😬
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My favourite People I Mostly Admire episodes. I'm sad it's ending. #freakonomics
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Think Like a Freak: The Authors of Freakonomics Offer to Retrain Your Brain "First, put away your moral compass because it’s hard to see a problem clearly" Sale: $19 to $1.99 by Steven D. Levitt Rating: 4.2/5 (7567 Reviews) #Freakonomics #BookSky #Books #Reading #Kindle #Deal #Finance #Economy
Think Like a Freak: The Author... -
Are NFTs all scams? #podcast #Freakonomics #freakonomicsradio
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@Sylvhem @chabdpointcom @jastrow Je suppose que c'est une question rhétorique, mais ça me fait penser à une bout d'épisode du podcast #Freakonomics sur les #rats où Bethany Brookshire, autrice d'un livre sur les animaux #nuisibles (Pests: How Humans Create Animal Villains) parle de #pigeons.
J'ai copié/collé les captures d'écran en anglais de la transcription sur https://freakonomics.com/podcast/why-does-everyone-hate-rats/
(Confession : Je fais partie des personnes qui n'aiment pas avoir des pigeons autours de là où je vis parce qu'ils salissent, font du bruit… bref, me dérangent, mais je ne vais pas au delà de faire des gestes ou du bruit pour qu'ils aillent voir plus loin)
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CW: Apocalyptic
This episode of Freakonomics discusses the failures which lead up to a school shooting.
Basically the shooter is crying out for help and is essentially committing a public suicide usually giving many obvious signs that they need help. (Because America: access to guns is simple)
This is how I feel America as a whole is behaving and scarily we are it's schoolmates. What the hell can we do to help our troubled, psychotic classmate not kill us all?
(Because America access to the greatest number of every and all weapons is simple)
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One for followers, students etc. from regulated professions: this #Freakonomics episode will give us something to discuss 😊
https://freakonomics.com/podcast/is-professional-licensing-a-racket/Some of this is US-specific, but it is always good to reflect on the reasons and ways we do #QualityAssurance
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"So everything we’re learning as absolutes makes us think we know and we don’t know. And when you think you know, you no longer pay any attention. It makes us evaluative of other people who may see a different world. " -- Ellen Langer in a really interesting Freakonomics piece/podcast on mind/body research. Turns out we can change a lot with how we use our attention. https://freakonomics.com/podcast/pay-attention-your-body-will-thank-you/
#memory #health #MindBody #MindBending #EllenLanger #mindfulness #Freakonomics #aging #attention
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@baldur When the #Freakonomics podcast interviews CEOs, they're never challenging
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"Playing notes on her piano, she demonstrates for Steve why whole numbers sound pleasing, why octaves are mathematically imperfect, and how math underlies musical composition. Sarah, a professor at the University of London and Gresham College, also talks with Steve about the gender gap in mathematics and why being interested in everything can be a problem." https://youtu.be/6InOvMbc4e0 #Video #Maths #Mathematics #Math #Music #Audio #Academic #SarahHart #Podcast #StevenLevitt #Freakonomics
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Gegenbeispiele:
* #WohlstandFürAlle
* 99 percent Invisible
* #freakonomics3 #Podcasts denen ich ähnlich oft zustimme - aber bei KEINEM davon dachte ich häufiger "Das hat gerade mit Realität überhaupt NICHTS zu tun!‽"
Der Unterschied ist nicht meine Meinung. Die anderen folgern auch oft imho falsch. Der Unterschied ist die Frequenz wie oft ich offensichtlich grundfalsche Annahmen bemerke.
Wie soll ich jemandem seine Schlussfolgerungen glauben, wenn er sonst auch ständig Blödsinn erzählt?
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@carnage4life I've listened to some excellent #Freakonomics podcasts that discuss "how much power does the president (and Fed) actually have over the economy?" Spoiler: basically none. But being politicians, they take all the credit and get all the blame.
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@arstechnica Great episode by #freakonomics that kinda predicted the very same outcomes: https://freakonomics.com/podcast/are-private-equity-firms-plundering-the-u-s-economy/
Well it was already happening in other industries like vet clinics.
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You know, Levitt's dubious and debunked claims in #freakonomics actually teach us something interesting about incentive.
The claims were intriguing (if sometimes incorrect) and the writing was easy to read. He's now had countless book tours, countless sales, a successful podcast, work coming out of his butt.
From this, we can learn that well written, bad #economics can form the basis of lucrative media career. -
From #Freakonomics podcast:
Why Is It So Hard (and Expensive) to Build Anything in America?
For the record, I'm open to an expanded role for prefab housing, although I'm not convinced it will be a silver bullet. But Japan and Sweden have shown that it can increase home-building productivity. And the housing crisis is so big that it requires many solutions working together, so sure, add prefab to the toolkit, and fix the financing side so it's workable.
https://freakonomics.com/podcast/why-is-it-so-hard-and-expensive-to-build-anything-in-america/
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Did Legalizing Abortion Reduce Crime 20 Years Later? - Rebecca Watson
Did legalizing abortion in the 70’s cause the big drop in the crime rate in the 90’s as described in the book Freakonomics? Rebecca Watson explores this idea in this short video.
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Useless Facts, Badly Drawn #323: The Washington Pizza Index.
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#politics #predictingthefuture #freakonomics #washingtonpizzaindex #statistics #pizza #takeout #cia #nsa #pentagon #news #worldnews #worldevents #strangebuttrue #wtf #funfacts #bizarre #facts #comics #webcomics #uselessfacts #uselessfactsbadlydrawn -
Useless Facts, Badly Drawn #323: The Washington Pizza Index.
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#politics #predictingthefuture #freakonomics #washingtonpizzaindex #statistics #pizza #takeout #cia #nsa #pentagon #news #worldnews #worldevents #strangebuttrue #wtf #funfacts #bizarre #facts #comics #webcomics #uselessfacts #uselessfactsbadlydrawn -
Useless Facts, Badly Drawn #323: The Washington Pizza Index.
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#politics #predictingthefuture #freakonomics #washingtonpizzaindex #statistics #pizza #takeout #cia #nsa #pentagon #news #worldnews #worldevents #strangebuttrue #wtf #funfacts #bizarre #facts #comics #webcomics #uselessfacts #uselessfactsbadlydrawn -
Useless Facts, Badly Drawn #323: The Washington Pizza Index.
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#politics #predictingthefuture #freakonomics #washingtonpizzaindex #statistics #pizza #takeout #cia #nsa #pentagon #news #worldnews #worldevents #strangebuttrue #wtf #funfacts #bizarre #facts #comics #webcomics #uselessfacts #uselessfactsbadlydrawn -
Useless Facts, Badly Drawn #323: The Washington Pizza Index.
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#politics #predictingthefuture #freakonomics #washingtonpizzaindex #statistics #pizza #takeout #cia #nsa #pentagon #news #worldnews #worldevents #strangebuttrue #wtf #funfacts #bizarre #facts #comics #webcomics #uselessfacts #uselessfactsbadlydrawn -
I read #freakonomics a few moons ago. It's the first time I got introduced to the concepts in #economics.
In the book, the role of incentive in driving our behavior is highlighted. Understanding incentive helps me understand why DevOps is so effective, and why some (outsourced) devs aren't really keen on refactoring or improving internal designs.
I found myself being able to articulate better when talking about human-related decisions/concerns surrounding software engineering.
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@plantbasededi #Freakonomics did an episode on free public transport: https://freakonomics.com/podcast/should-public-transit-be-free/
#Luxembourg has free #PublicTransport : https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-51657085 -
I was just listening to Freakonomics. Given what is happening this weekend and the amount of bling being shown off, Steve Dubner's joke fits.
Q. Why are the pyramids found in Egypt?
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I've been listening to the #freakonomics episode on #adamSmith. It reminds me that the power and benefits of #capitalism aren't because it ensures "free markets". The benefits come from intense competition, which makes the vendors better and the products cheaper. Pretty much the entire success of the modern world is built on this #competition (+ #scientificMethod).
Unfortunately, the natural course of a free market, driven by well-known and well-taught business strategies, is to avoid competition, by using customer lock-in and other anti-competitive moves until you get to effective #monopoly power. Once you have monopoly power, you can go into harvest mode, raising prices and spending less, mostly on protecting the "moats" around your monopoly.
What we really need is not #freeMarket, it's #freeCompetition.
So when you hear a public policy debate or a business tycoon going on about "free markets" you should ask yourself -- would this make competition easier or harder? Would it give consumers and customers more choice or less choice?
This is one of the main reasons I have devoted most of my career to running or helping #startUps. A new underdog entrant is the essence of competition and expanding choices. Unfortunately, any startup that is successful enough to become dominant in its industry, becomes anti-competitive and can become a drag on society's progress.
Whew, I didn't expect that to be so long! I better stop now. Please let me know what you think.