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I chose this book because I read "Freakonomics" last year and I was very interested. It had a lot of interesting information and I have to say, I was intrigued about what else the authors had to say. Going into this book, I'm hoping for something in the same vein as the first book. By the nature of how it is written, showing different examples of the economic progress in other aspects of life, I expect new and exciting information.

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"But Title IX also brought some bad news for women. When the law was passed, more than 90 percent of college women’s sports teams had female head coaches. Title IX boosted the appeal of such jobs: salaries rose and there was more exposure and excitement. Like the lowly peasant food that is “discovered” by the culinary elite and promptly migrates from roadside shacks into high-end restaurants, these jobs were soon snapped up by a new set of customers: men. These days, barely 40 percent of college women’s sports
teams are coached by women. Among the most visible coaching jobs in women’s sports are those in the Women’s National Basketball Association (WNBA), founded thirteen years ago as a corollary to the men’s NBA. As of this writing, the WNBA has 13 teams and just 6 of them—again, fewer than 50 percent—are coached by women. This is actually an improvement from the league’s tenth anniversary season, when only 3 of the 14 coaches were women. For all the progress women have made in the twenty-first-century labor market, the typical female would come out well ahead if she had simply had the foresight to be born male." (Dubner & Levitt 27)
This passage is a perfect image of the authors' styles in writing. The entire book so far has used this combination of logos and pathos; using both facts and humor. Personally, I let out a chuckle when I read the sarcastic comment at the end of the quote. Not only did I enjoy the humor, I truly was interested in all of the statistics presented in this passage, as well as others.

"Disintermediate"- Disintermediation- noun -  the removal of intermediaries in economics from a supply chain, or cutting out the middlemen in connection with a transaction or a series of transactions.- "Much has been said of the Internet's awesome ability to 'intermediate.'" (Dubner & Levitt 51)

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"Such birth effects aren’t as rare as you might think. Douglas Almond, examining U.S. Census data from 1960 to 1980, found one group of people whose terrible luck persisted over their whole lives. They had more
physical ailments and lower lifetime income than people who’d been born just a few months earlier or a few months later. They stood out in the census record like a layer of volcanic ash stands out in the archaeological record, a thin stripe of ominous sediment nestled between two thick bands of normalcy.
What happened?
These people were in utero during the “Spanish flu” pandemic of 1918. It was a grisly plague, killing more than half a million Americans in just a few months—a casualty toll, as Almond notes, greater than all U.S. combat deaths during all the wars fought in the twentieth century." (Dubner & Levitt 59)

This passage, one again paints a good example of what can be found in the rest of the novel. In this passage the authors use a good metaphor about volcanic ash to make something abstract more visual. They also asked a rhetorical question. When reading this for the first time, I was actually asking in my head what happened when I read the authors ask it for me and go ahead to answer themselves. This really draws the readers in and gives more engagement. It is truly impressive that Dubner and Levitt can be entertaining while talking about economics for over 200 pages.

"Adverse Selection"- noun - a situation where sellers have information that buyers do not have, or vice versa, about some aspect of product quality. - "Then, exhibiting a keen understanding of what economists call adverse selection, she declares that she still wouldn’t do it—because any client crazy enough to offer $1 million for a single round of unprotected sex must be so crazy that he should be avoided at all costs." (Dubner & Levitt 53)

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"This isn’t to say there’s no difference between the best and worst doctors in the ER. (And no, we’re not going to name them.) In a given year, an excellent ER doctor’s patients will have a twelve-month death rate that is nearly 10 percent lower than the average. This may not sound like much, but in a busy ER with tens of thousands of patients, an excellent doctor might save six or seven lives a year relative to the worst doctor.
Interestingly, health outcomes are largely uncorrelated to spending. This means the best doctors don’t spend any more money—for tests, hospital admittance, and so on—than the lesser doctors. This is worth pondering in an era when higher health-care spending is widely thought to produce better health-care  outcomes. In the United States, the health-care sector accounts for more than 16 percent of GDP, up from 5 percent in 1960, and is projected to reach 20 percent by 2015." (Dubner & Levitt 80)

This passage showcases an example of the the analysis that the authors do, rather than the other passages, where more data is presented. In this passage, they connect their data to the real world; they went from analyzing the efficiency of hospitals to health care across America. This was the first time that I noticed where the authors did this and I started to ask questions; is this an issue that is more important to them than others? Will they do it again? If they do, how? And with what?

Honorific- noun - a title or word implying or expressing high status, politeness, or respect. - "With his tongue
loosened a bit, he mentions, almost sheepishly, that he has recently gained an honorific: he is now known as Sir Ian Horsley." (Dubner & Levitt 96)

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"The Kitty Genovese murder became infamous because of an article published on the front page of The New York Times. It began like this:
For more than half an hour 38 respectable, law-abiding citizens in Queens watched a killer stalk and stab a woman in three separate attacks in Kew Gardens…. Not one person telephoned the police during the assault; one witness called after the woman was dead. The murder took about thirty-five minutes from start to finish. “If we had been called when he first attacked,” said a police inspector, “the woman might not be dead now.” The police had interviewed Genovese’s neighbors the morning after the murder, and the Times’s reporter reinterviewed some of them. When asked why they hadn’t intervened or at least called the police, they offered a variety of excuses:
'We thought it was a lovers’ quarrel.” (Dubner and Levitt 98)

At the time of reading this passage, I was shocked and had some questions about it. I was wondering why the authors took such a dark turn when all of the other chapters in this book and its predecessor had been much less morbid. They then go on to discuss the altruism of humans through experiments regarding and examination of human nature.

Lambasted- Verb- to criticize harshly- "Politicians, theologians, and editorial writers lambasted the neighbors for their apathy" (Dubner and Levitt 99)

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"Enter the Agricultural Revolution. A variety of innovations, none particularly complex—they included higher-yielding crops, better tools, and a more efficient use of capital—changed farming and, subsequently, the face of the earth. In late eighteenth-century America, “it took 19 out of 20 workers to feed the country’s inhabitants and provide a surplus for export,” wrote the economist Milton Friedman. Two hundred years later, only 1 of 20 American workers was needed to feed a far larger population while also making the
United States 'the largest single exporter of food in the world.'
The Agricultural Revolution freed up millions of hands that went on to power the Industrial Revolution. By 1850, worldwide population had grown to 1.3 billion; by 1900, 1.7 billion; by 1950, 2.6 billion. And then things really took off. Over the next fifty years, the population more than doubled, reaching well beyond 6 billion. If you had to pick a single silver bullet that allowed this surge, it would be ammonium nitrate, an astonishingly cheap and effective crop fertilizer. It wouldn’t be much of an overstatement to say that ammonium nitrate feeds the world. If it disappeared overnight, says the agricultural economist Will Masters, 'most people’s diets would revert to heaps of cereal grains and root crops, with animal products and fruits only for special occasions and for the rich." (Dubner & Levitt 141)

This passage once again shows the authors' ability to connect a specific topic to something much more important in history. In this passage, they speak about how small solutions create large impacts. It starts with the evaluation of the true impact of seat belts on small children, then goes on to examine the world's food need.

Oscillation- noun- movement back and forth at a regular speed- From the mid-1960s until the mid-1990s, hurricane activity was depressed by the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation" (Dubner & Levitt 158).

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"But as most economists know, people are generally unwilling to spend a lot of money to avert a future problem, especially when its likelihood is so uncertain. One good reason for waiting is that we might have options in the future to avert the problem that cost far less than today’s options.
Although economists are trained to be cold-blooded enough to sit around and calmly discuss the trade-offs involved in global catastrophe, the rest of us are a bit more excitable. And most people respond to uncertainty with more emotion—fear, blame, paralysis—than might be advisable. Uncertainty also has a nasty way of making us conjure up the very worst possibilities. (Think about the last time you heard a bump in the night outside your bedroom door.) With global warming, the worst possibilities are downright biblical: rising seas, hellish temperatures, plague upon plague, a planet in chaos" (Dubner & Levitt 169)

This passage follows the authors familiar formula for allowing readers to understand information. First, they provide hard facts, for those who appreciate the appeal of pathos. Then they relate the information to readers in a more familiar war, in this case talking about an experience that most readers have had.

Profligate- adj, - recklessly extravagant or wasteful in the use of resources- "Its centerpiece is a $300 million public-service campaign called 'We,' which urges Americans to change their profligate ways" (Dubner & Levitt 170)

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"So once you eliminate the moralism and the angst, the task of reversing global warming boils down to a straightforward engineering problem: how to get thirty-four gallons per minute of sulfur dioxide into the stratosphere?
The answer: a very long hose.
That’s what IV calls this project—a “garden hose to the sky.” Or, when they’re feeling slightly more technical, a “stratospheric shield for climate stabilization.” Considering its scientific forebear and the way it wraps the planet in a protective layer, perhaps it should be called Budyko’s Blanket" (Dubner & Levitt 193)

This passage is a great example of the authors voices. They use humor while still portraying relevant information. Personally, I am still amazed, even after finishing the book that they were able to make multiple books on the topic of statistics and still make them enjoyable to read. Personally, I think that I will look into their other book How To Think Like A Freak.

Compatriot- noun- a fellow citizen or national of a country - "He and his compatriots are currently working on, among other projects: a better internal combustion engine" (Dubner & Levitt 179)