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Freakonomics, Chapter 2
Monday: Continue Working on Paper
Tuesday: Library
Wednesday through Friday: Chapter 2, Freakonomics, Discuss and begin working on Final Paper
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Freakonomics:
A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
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What is Freakonomics?
Incentives are the cornerstone of modern life
The conventional wisdom is often wrong
Dramatic effects often have distant, even subtle causes
“Experts” use their informational advantage to serve their own agenda
Knowing what to measure and how to measure it makes a complicated world much less so

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What is Freakonomics?
Freakonomics begins in asking questions and then works to unravel the complexities of correlation and cause in order to develop an answer to these questions.

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Steps for Paper:
Identify Driving Question
Provide the Conventional Wisdom Answer (research)
Reject the Conventional Wisdom… Ask “What if…”
Explore Alternative Questions/Answers (Research)
Draw Conclusions

7. English 200 Monday, 5-4-15 through Friday, 5-8-15
Library, Tuesday,
Identify Driving Question
Provide the Conventional Wisdom Answer (research)
Reject the Conventional Wisdom… Ask “What if…”
Explore Alternative Questions/Answers (Research)
Draw Conclusions