Quotes from Steven D. Levitt

cuando la pose moral se ve sustituida por una valoración sincera, con frecuencia el resultado es una revelación nueva y sorprendente.

or "the habit of giving opinions and advice on matters outside of one's knowledge or competence.

Just as a warm and moist environment is conducive to the spread of deadly bacteria, the worlds of politics and business especially—with their long time frames, complex outcomes, and murky cause and effect—are conducive to the spread of half-cocked guesses posing as fact. And here's why: the people making these wild guesses can usually get away with it!

La población negra resultó más perjudicada por el crack que por ninguna otra causa desde las leyes discriminatorias conocidas como Jim Crow.

To Borody and a small band of like-minded brethren who believe in the power of poop, we are standing at the threshold of a new era in medicine. Borody sees the benefits of fecal therapy as "equivalent to the discovery of antibiotics." But first, there is much skepticism to overcome.

namely, how much kids have learned from their parents, how hard they work at home, and whether the parents have instilled an appetite for education. If these home

Mullaney often took the subway to visit the client. His ride sometimes coincided with the end of the school day;

Saber e fazer são duas coisas diferentes, principalmente quando a situação envolve prazer.

Borody claims to have used fecal transplants to effectively cure people who were suffering from ulcerative colitis—which, he says, was

Is distinctive black culture the cause of economic disparity between whites and blacks or merely the reflection of it?

La gente no es «buena» ni «mala». Las personas son personas y responden a incentivos. Casi siempre pueden ser manipuladas —para bien o para mal— si se encuentran las palancas adecuadas.

tragedy of the commons

Los gusanos nunca están satisfechos, no importa la cantidad de comida que les des»

Un estudio descubrió que más del 25% de los homicidios cometidos en la ciudad de Nueva York en 1988 estaban relacionados con el crack.

Few people think more than two or three times a year," Shaw reportedly said.

Dead horses were extremely unwieldy

Se suele decir que la luz del sol es el mejor de los desinfectantes.»

The results of Tetlock's study were sobering. These most expert of experts—96 percent of them had postgraduate training—"thought they knew more than they knew," he says. How accurate were their predictions? They weren't much better than "dart-throwing chimps," as Tetlock often joked.

The fact is that solving problem is hard. If a given problem still exists, you can bet that a lot of people have already come along and failed to solve it. Easy problems evaporate; it is the hard ones that linger. Furthermore, it takes a lot of time to track down, organize, and analyze the data to answer one small question well.

But when it comes to solving problems, one of the best ways to start is by putting away your moral compass.

Internet, a pesar de su poder, no ha conseguido dar muerte a la bestia de la asimetría informativa.

cuando una mujer no desea tener un hijo, generalmente cuenta con buenas razones para ello.

Pero la felicidad se entreveía en una docena de formas más. Parece que ése es el resultado de realizar un trabajo interesante con colegas inteligentes en un entorno hermoso, todo con un sentimiento de misión profundo. Un precio de las acciones en 297 dólares tampoco perjudica.

los datos de voto de El eslabón más débil indican que se discrimina sistemáticamente a dos tipos de concursantes: las personas mayores y los hispanos.