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The New York Times excellent-selling Freakonomics was a worldwide sensation, selling over four million copies in thirty-five languages and varying the way we look at the world. Now, Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner return together with SuperFreakonomics, and fans and newcomers alike will locate this the freakquel is even bolder, funnier, and extra surprising than the first.

Four years in the making, SuperFreakonomics asks not only the tough questions, but the unexpected ones: What's extra dangerous, driving drunk or walking drunk? Why is chemotherapy prescribed so often if it's so ineffective? Can a sex modify boost your salary?

SuperFreakonomics challenges the way we believe all over again, exploring the concealed side of everything together with such questions as:

How is a street prostitute like a department-store Santa?
Why are doctors so bad at washing their hands?
How much good do car seats do?
What's the excellent way to catch a terrorist?
Did TV cause a rise in crime?
What do hurricanes, heart attacks, and highway deaths have in common?
Are people hard-wired for altruism or selfishness?
Can eating kangaroo save the planet?
Which adds extra value: a pimp or a Realtor?

Levitt and Dubner mix smart thinking and excellent storytelling like no one else, whether investigating a answer to global warming or explaining why the cost of oral sex has fallen so drastically. By examining how people respond to incentives, they show the world for what it really is – good, bad, ugly, and, in the final analysis, super freaky.

Freakonomics has been imitated many times over – but only now, together with SuperFreakonomics, has it met its match.

Book Description

SuperFreakonomics challenges the way we believe all over again, exploring the concealed side of everything together with such questions as:

How is a street prostitute like a department-store Santa?
Why are doctors so bad at washing their hands?
How much good do car seats do?
What's the excellent way to catch a terrorist?
Did TV cause a rise in crime?
What do hurricanes, heart attacks, and highway deaths have in common?
Are people hard-wired for altruism or selfishness?
Can eating kangaroo save the planet?
Which adds extra value: a pimp or a Realtor?

Levitt and Dubner mix smart thinking and excellent storytelling like no one else, whether investigating a answer to global warming or explaining why the cost of oral sex has fallen so drastically. By examining how people respond to incentives, they show the world for what it really is good, bad, ugly, and, in the final analysis, super freaky.

Freakonomics has been imitated many times over but only now, together with SuperFreakonomics, has it met its match.

From Superfreakonomics: Where do you stand on the freak-o-meter?

Four years ago, you were cool. You read Freakonomics when it first came out. You impressed family and friends and dazzled dates together with the insights you gleaned. Now Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner return together with Superfreakonomics, a freakquel even bolder, funnier, and extra surprising than the first.

Have you been keeping up? Can you call yourself a SuperFreak? Test your Superfreakonomics recognize-how now:

Question 1: 5 points
According to Superfreakonomics, what has been much helpful in improving the lives of women in rural India?
A. The government ban on dowries and sex-selective abortions
B. The spread of cable and satellite television
C. Projects this pay women to not abort female babies
D. Condoms made specially for the Indian market

Question 2: 3 points
Among Chicago street prostitutes, which night of the week is the much profitable?
A. Saturday
B. Monday
C. Wednesday
D. Friday

Question 3: 5 points
You land in an emergency room together with a serious condition and your fate lies in the hands of the doctor you illustrate. Which characteristic doesn’t seem to matter in terms of doctor skill?
A. Attended a top-ranked medical school and served a residency at a prestigious hospital
B. Is female
C. Gets high ratings from peers
D. Spends extra money on treatment

Question 4: 3 points
Which cancer is chemotherapy extra likely to be efficient for?
A. Lung cancer
B. Melanoma
C. Leukemia
D. Pancreatic cancer

Question 5: 5 points
Half of the decline in deaths from heart disease is mainly attributable to:
A. Inexpensive drugs
B. Angioplasty
C. Grafts
D. Stents

Question 6: 3 points
True or False: Kid car seats do a better job of protecting kids over the age of 2 from auto fatalities than regular seat belts.

Question 7: 5 points
What’s the excellent thing a person can do personally to cut greenhouse gas emissions?
A. Drive a hybrid car
B. Eat one less hamburger a week
C. Buy all your food from local sources

Question 8: 3 points
Which is much efficient at stopping the greenhouse result?
A. Public-awareness campaigns to discourage consumption
B. Cap-and-trade agreements on carbon emissions
C. Volcanic explosions
D. Planting lots of trees

Question 9: 5 points
In the 19th century, one of the gravest threats of childbearing was puerperal fever, which was often fatal to mother and kid. Its cause was finally determined to be:
A. Tight bindings of petticoats early in the pregnancy
B. Foul air in the delivery wards
C. Doctors not taking sanitary precautions
D. The mother rising too soon in the delivery room

Question 10: 3 points
Which of the following were not aftereffects of the World Trade Center and Pentagon attacks on September 11, 2001:
A. The reduce in airline traffic slowed the spread of influenza.
B. Thanks to more police in Washington, D.C., crime fell in this city.
C. The psychological results of the attacks caused people to cut back on their consumption of alcohol, which led to a reduce in traffic accidents.
D. The enhance in border safety was a boon to some California farmers, who, as Mexican and Canadian imports declined, sold so much marijuana this it became one of the states much valuable crops.

Answers and Scoring
Question 1
B, Cable and satellite TV. Women together with television were less willing to tolerate wife beating, less likely to admit to having a “son preference,” and extra likely to exercise personal autonomy. In addition, the men were perhaps too busy watching cricket.

Question 2
A, Saturday nights are the much profitable. While Friday nights are the busiest, the single greatest determinant of a prostitute’s cost is the specific trick she is hired to perform. And for whatever reason, Saturday clients buy extra expensive services.

Question 3
C, One factor this doesn’t seem to matter is whether a doctor is highly rated by his or her colleagues. Those named as excellent by their colleagues turned out to be no better than average at lowering death rates--although they did use less money on treatments.

Question 4
C, Leukemia. Chemotherapy has proven efficient on some cancers, counting leukemia, lymphoma, Hodgkin’s disease, and testicular cancer, particularly if these cancers are detected early. But in much cases, chemotherapy is amazingly ineffective, often showing zero discernible result. This said, cancer drugs do up the second-largest category of pharmaceutical sales, together with chemotherapy comprising the bulk.

Question 5
A, Inexpensive drugs. Expensive medical procedures, while technologically dazzling, are responsible for a amazingly small share of the innovation in heart disease. Roughly half of the decline has come from reductions in risk factors like high cholesterol and high blood pressure, together of which are treated together with relatively inexpensive drugs. And much of the remaining decline is thanks to ridiculously inexpensive treatments like aspirin, heparin, ACE inhibitors, and beta-blockers.

Question 6
False. Based on widespread data analysis as well as crash tests paid for by the authors, old-fashioned seat belts do just as well as car seats.

Question 7
B, Shifting less than one day per week’s worth of calories from red meat and dairy products to chicken, fish, eggs, or a vegetable-based diet achieves extra greenhouse-gas reduction than buying all locally sourced food, according to a recent learn by Christopher Weber and H. Scott Matthews, two Carnegie Mellon researchers. Each time a Prius or other hybrid owner drives to the grocery store, she may be cancelling out its emissions-reducing benefit, at least if she shops in the meat section. Emission from cows, as well as sheep and other ruminants, are 25 times extra potent as a greenhouse gas than the carbon dioxide released by cars and humans.

Question 8
C, the 1991 eruption of Mount Pinatubo in the Philippines discharged extra than 20 million tons of sulfur dioxide into the atmosphere, which acted like a layer of sunscreen, reducing the amount of solar radiation and cooling off the earth by an average of one degree F.

Question 9
C, doctors not taking sanitary precautions. This was the dawning age of the autopsy, and doctors did not yet recognize the importance of washing their hands afterwards leaving the autopsy room and entering the delivery room.

Question 10
C, the psychological result of the attacks caused people to enhance their alcohol consumption, and traffic accidents increased as a outcome.

Scoring
32-40: Certified SuperFreak
25-31: Freak--surprises lay in wait for you
16-24: Wannabe freak--you’ve got some reading to do
1-15: Conventional wisdomer--you’re still thinking in old ways

Customer Reviews

Good Sequel 2010-09-04

By James

I had very high expectations for this book because I absolutely loved Freakonomics. This book was definitely very good but I didn't enjoy it as much as the first one.

Super Freakonomics Super Freaked My Face 2010-08-31

By Killsaw

This is the second installation of the Freakonomics books. Great analytical reviews of a variety of interesting subjects. No technical economic knowledge necessary to understand the points Levitt & Dubner drive home. Great Book. Enjoy...or don't if you suck.

1st book blows this one away.. this book is a stretch 2010-08-30

By drmcfarl

This book was a waste of time.. It tries to follow up its first book with a terrible attempt.. The examples and points this book try to make are wildly far fetched. They have tried much too hard. Would recommend to people who like to waste time and money..

Disappointed 2010-08-22

By Doctor Moss

Freakonomics was an entertaining and even interesting book. This one isn't. The impression I took away from Freakonomics was that there are abundances of unexpected statistical correlations, tantalizingly suggesting causal relations between things we wouldn't have thought related.

This book instead left me with nothing really new. It's a collection of additional statistical correlations and analyses, reviving my sense that bare correlation is not causality, and that correlations can certainly be misleading. But more than that, the sequel mixes equal parts of anecdotes and Wired-quality mythmaking with its microeconomics. The sections on Nathan Myhrvold reminded me why I got tired of Wired years ago -- the hero-making, overblown hoo-ha . . . sorry, was getting nauseous.

Must-read for both Marxists and Macroeconomists 2010-08-22

By Scott Allen (New York)

Economics for the rest of us, Freakonomics hit the best-seller lists by storm. The economist authors thought they were releasing a simple little book but instead received rock-star acclaim. In this volume, they hit us with a second helping of the common-sense but often counter-intuitive ways in which human beings (and even monkeys) respond to incentives. Why do street hookers earn so much less than they did decades ago? How can we use tell-tale data clues without racially profiling to find terrorists? Can volcanic eruptions or weird water tube contraptions reverse global warming and stop hurricanes? The writers promise to answer all of these questions and more.

This book is perfect for listening to during your commute, because each chapter is self-contained, so there is no complicated plot to get mixed up with. One of the writers reads the work himself, which is so much more enjoyable than a professional reader in this case. He knows his work, he knows how to pronounce all the words correctly, and he has such passion for his subject. Highly recommended for Marxists and Macroeconomists alike.

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