Sunday, August 31, 2008
Freakonomics
Have just been reading an interesting book "Freakonomics". They look into statistics like "What do estate agents and the Ku Klux Klan have in common?" and "Why do drug dealers live with their mothers". They are taking boring stats and turning it into understandable science. Fascinating.
They also looked into names given to babies. Their prediction for most popular girls name year 2015 is...tadadada...Annika!
I am so before my time...
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'freakonomics'
just so happens this is the book chosen for our bookclub this month - I really wasnt very convinced it was worth reading when I was told about it, but looks like I should make the effort
It's quick read, and the last half of the book consists of articles which you can skip.
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