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Worth a read?

>> No.18717592

>>18717478
The cases analyzed are pretty interesting, I had a good time reading.
Though, try to get an older edition. The best part of the book is the hypothesis that the expected crime tsunami didn't happen because abortion was legalized and the undesirables didn't get to be born. They have since changed some things since it was really obvious it meant negros. But I think it was accidental, as often happens.

>> No.18717703

>>18717592
>The cases analyzed are pretty interesting
Bro, the crime rate declined because of abortion, just trust me on this one bro. Abortion is good. I swear.

>> No.18717714

>>18717478
Don’t you want nonstop fun?

>> No.18717716

>>18717703
I've always thought it was sort of disturbing that the quasi-eugenical argument put forth in the book is considered so profound by liberals.

>> No.18718001

>>18717703
I like Steve Sailer but it's always funny when he blows a gasket over Levitt's abortion argument given his own appeal is uncovering uncomfortable truths.

What is your theory for why crime rates dropped?

>> No.18718086

>>18717714
Yes, butters

>> No.18718387

>>18718001
I don't know who Steve Sailer is.
I don't have a theory.
Freakonomics is a joke.
Econometrics is also a joke.

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>>18718387
>I don't know who Steve Sailer is.
>I don't have a theory.
>Freakonomics is a joke.
>Econometrics is also a joke.

>> No.18718428

>>18718387
And you are a brainwashed retarded piece of shit confidently talking about things you have no clue about.

>> No.18718470

>>18718415
>>18718428
It's my econometrics professor who was very critical of econometrics, stop seething. Freakonomics is objectively a retarded book.

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>>18718470
>It's my econometrics professor who was very critical of econometrics, stop seething. Freakonomics is objectively a retarded book.

>> No.18718525

>>18718475
keep seething

>> No.18718613

>>18717592
>>18717716

I'm pretty sure Steven Pinker debunked it in one of his books and the writers of Freakonomics regret it now

>> No.18718633

>>18717478
MOMS

>> No.18718691

>>18717592
Abortion doesn’t cure poverty.