And knowing what happens on average is a good place to start. By so doing, we insulate ourselves from the tendency to build our thinking - our daily decisions, our laws, our governance - on exceptions and anomalies rather than on reality
If you own a gun and have a swimming pool in the yard, the swimming pool is almost 100 times more likely to kill a child than the gun is. - Steven Levitt
If you own a gun and have a swimming pool in the yard, the swimming pool is almost 100 times more likely to kill a child than the gun is.
- Steven Levitt
Purity is a good mask for corruption because it discourages inquiry. - Steven Levitt
Purity is a good mask for corruption because it discourages inquiry.
The key to learning is feedback. It is nearly impossible to learn anything without it. - Steven Levitt
The key to learning is feedback. It is nearly impossible to learn anything without it.
Morality, it could be argued, represents the way that people would like the world to work, wheareas economics represents how it actually does work. - Steven Levitt
Morality, it could be argued, represents the way that people would like the world to work, wheareas economics represents how it actually does work.
An expert must be BOLD if he hopes to alchemize his homespun theory into conventional wisdom. - Steven Levitt
An expert must be BOLD if he hopes to alchemize his homespun theory into conventional wisdom.
The conventional wisdom is often wrong. - Steven Levitt
The conventional wisdom is often wrong.
Don't trust, just verify. - Steven Levitt
Don't trust, just verify.
No matter how expert you may be, well-designed checklists can improve outcomes. - Steven Levitt
No matter how expert you may be, well-designed checklists can improve outcomes.
Solving a problem is hard enough; it gets that much harder if you’ve decided beforehand it can’t be done. - Steven Levitt
Solving a problem is hard enough; it gets that much harder if you’ve decided beforehand it can’t be done.
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