How to Murder a Complete Stranger and Get Away With It
…guarantee that if there is one empty seat, it will be next to you. Some examples: How to Murder a Complete Stranger and Get Away With It (Back Cover Reads:…
…guarantee that if there is one empty seat, it will be next to you. Some examples: How to Murder a Complete Stranger and Get Away With It (Back Cover Reads:…
…a trait not easily quantified? Simple. Just get headshots of 80 male cyclists who finished the grueling Tour de France, put them up on www.fluidsurveys.com, and have people rate them…
…to apartment hunters’ detriment. Apartment seekers should also value this information, as it will prevent individuals from entering contractual agreements they would later regret. So we created a website, www.BadNYCapartments.com…
…is what the women think. We live in a strange world. (Source: Demographic and Health Surveys, publicly available at www.measuredhs.com. Thanks to Emily Oster for forwarding these statistics to me.)…
…good idea. I clicked on the video [see below] – it appears to be a downloadable file which undoubtedly will install some kind of virus or Trojan on your computer….
…reader can supply earlier documentation than that, I would love to hear about it. Zach asked: Can you find the origin of the phrase “My Bad” http://www.sbnation.com/2010/6/20/1527231/manute-bol-tribute-my-bad-phrase Garson O’Toole, whose…
…show. If you have 15-20 minutes to read a draft script and answer opinion questions, please go to http://www.nord-consultants.com/spacefilm/. We need your feedback by August 29 in order to revise…
…a mystery. The obvious first explanation is that someone was cheating. After all, there was a prize pool of $80 million at stake. But the data detectives at www.pokernews.com offer…
…the one to name it. She is the most creative person I’ve ever met. When she isn’t thinking up book titles, her day job is running www.yarnzilla.com, an online and…
…Mr. Howe [clears throat], I’m looking at, uh, the Monday issue, August 29th, page E6, the article on civilian spy planes. [clears throat] The cut-line under the photograph is redundant….
…for kicks, here’s a clip from the Freakonomics movie in which Levitt and I ask the question: Does your real estate agent really have your best interest in mind? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17jO_w6f8Ck…
…Audacious Way to Improve the Performance of Your Retirement Portfolio.? You can read?an excerpt here, and?www.lifecycleinvesting.net has downloadable data and calculators that will let you see our diversifying strategy in…
…[the club’s general manager] is doing something right.” The simple point I was making is that the A’s don’t win for the reasons Moneyball implied, i.e that they put a…
…What do bishops and tennis professionals have in common? — Stan A. Comfortable shoes, unusual headgear, and a lot of love. Q. Of the examples discussed in the book, which…
…and Sticks is not an extended advertisement for stickK.com or for the value of commitment contracts.? It explores not only how best to pick the right commitment tool, but also…
I just caught this (with a Tivo-induced lag) — Austan Goolsbee on Monday’s Colbert Report: The Colbert Report Mon – Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c Austan Goolsbee www.colbertnation.com Colbert Report Full…
…a new question every day and “[a]t the end of the day, the results of the survey are compared with the results of all previous surveys, and the two outcomes…
…see the score before I watch because that ruins the game. To solve the problem I created a little website to warn me if the games are bad (www.shouldiwatch.com), but…
Thanks to The Times‘s nice writeup (“Dieting? Put Your Money Where Your Fat Is”), an Internet company that I helped found, www.stickK.com, has been getting a spike in commitment contracts….
…policy denies brokers using new technologies and business models the same benefits of MLS membership available to their competitor brokers, suppresses innovation, discourages competition on price and quality, and prevents…
…time on the market. Then it continues: Levitt and Dubner assume real estate businesses are built around one-time transactions. In fact, successful professionals build relationships with customers for life. Homeowners…
An amazing website that the guys at Marginal Revolution blogged about. It is called www.scipionus.com. It is a map-based wiki where regular people can insert information geographically about the effects…
…to make progress on this problem is a music video launched by UNICEF. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_peUxE_BKcU It is truly amazing to me that this video got made. Not because it will or…
…supplied by Bill Tancer from www.hitwise.com, documents Freakonomics’ share of the web traffic from the millions of internet users that Hitwise tracks (and for fun, Bill Bennett’s too): Last week…
…masse. [Ed.: this experiment was also discussed in Freakonomics .] Clearly, there was more to explore, we thought, and our book The Why Axis: Hidden Motives and the Undiscovered Economics…
…answers (and rationale) in the comments, or you can visit my survey questionnaire at the link below: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/WhichSocialScienceShouldDie P.S. I did not place “anthropology” and “history” as options because of…
Through Innovations for Poverty Action, I am co-Principal Investigator on a randomized trial of the impact of Compartamos, a for-profit microlender in Mexico. Compartamos was the first microcredit organization to…
…Axis: Hidden Motives and the Undiscovered Economics of Everyday Life. List appeared in our recent podcast “How to Raise Money Without Killing a Kitten.” The passage of the Americans with…
…[the club’s general manager] is doing something right.” The simple point I was making is that the A’s don’t win for the reasons Moneyball implied, i.e that they put a…
…it was Hugo who sent me to Chicago a couple years ago to interview Steve Levitt. Thanks, Hugo. And nice piece. (Thanks to Adam Scott of www.angryman.ca for the link.)…