|

|
Freakonomics:
…study has shown that low maternal education is the single most powerful factor leading to criminality.
|
139 |
|

|
Freakonomics:
Growing up in a single-parent home roughly doubles a child’s propensity to commit crime. So does having a teenage mother.
|
139 |
|

|
Freakonomics:
An expert must be bold if he hopes to alchemize his homespun theory into conventional wisdom.
|
149 |
|

|
Freakonomics:
No one is more susceptible to an expert’s fearmongering than a parent.
|
149 |
|

|
Freakonomics:
…most of us are… terrible risk assessors.
|
150 |
|

|
Freakonomics:
…motivation is probably a stronger indicator of success than, well, a name.
|
192 |