Chapter 1 - Introduction: The Hidden Side of Everything
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The cause of the rise in crime in the early 1990s was: 1
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  black plague
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superpredator
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the destroyer of human kind
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the cause of economic depression
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What was the name of the criminologist that predicted optimistically, crime would increase by 15% over the next decade and, pessimistically would more than double? 2
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James Alan Fox
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Fox James
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Alan James
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None of the above
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Who was the defendant in a class action lawsuit seeking to legalize abortion in 1970? 3
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James Smith
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Jane Roe
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Henry Wade
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Jane Smith
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McCorvey's name was disguised as: 4
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Jane Doe
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Jane Roe
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Jane Smith
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Jane Adams
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The founder of classical economics was: 12
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Adam Smith
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John Smith
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Williams Adams
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Adam Williams
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After a fine was enacted for picking up children late from a daycare center in Haifa, Israel, the number of late pickups: 16
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was reduced drastically
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stayed the same
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went up
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decreased by more than half
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What was the name of the standardized, multiple choice exam where every student in the third, sixth and eighth grade had to manage a minimum score in order to be promoted? 22
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Idaho test of Basic Skills
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Iowa Test of Basic Skills
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Illinois Test of Basic Skills
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Indiana Test of Basic Skills
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High stakes testing was part of which law mandated by the federal government signed by President Bush in 2002. 22
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High Stakes Testing Law
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No Child Left Behind Law
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A combination of A and B
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None of those above listed
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Who was the CEO of the Chicago Public Schools who wanted to make sure that the teachers identified by the algorithm as cheaters were truly cheating -- and then did something about it by commissioning a retesting of the study. 31
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Steven J. Levitt
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Arne Duncan
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Steven J. Dubner
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Ron Jirsa
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Data suggests that both sumo wrestlers and their stables may be rigging matches. 40
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A key fact of white collar crime is that we hear about only a very slim fraction of people who are caught cheating. Most embezzlers lead quiet and theoretically happy lives; employees who steal company property are rarely detected. 42
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Chapter 2 - What do SchoolTeachers and SumoWrestlers have in common?
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If the Klan itself was defeated, however, its aims had largely been achieved through the establishment of ______ laws 50
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Jim Crow Laws
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Jack Crow Laws
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Jake Crow Laws
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Jacob Crow Laws
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Atlanta- the Imperial City of the KKK's Invisible Empire, in Klan jargon- was also home to ______________, a thirty year old man with the bloodlines of a Klansman but a temperament that ran opposite. 51
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Steven Kennedy
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John Kennedy
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Stetson Kennnedy
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James Kennedy
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According to the author, the following is a true statement: 62
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Many experts use their information to your detriment.
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Experts depend on the fact that you don't have the information they have.
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Experts depend on the fact that you are so in awe of their expertise that you wouldn't dare challenge them.
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All of the above
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A big part of the real estate agent's job, it would seem, is to persuade the homeowner to sell for less than he would like while at the same time letting potential buyers know that a house can be bought for less than its listing price. 66
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In the real estate market, the term "Corian" is correlated to a higher sales price. 68
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An analysis of 160 episodes of the show The Weakest Link suggests that Hispanics suffer which type of discrimination? 72
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Taste based discrimination
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Circle discrimination
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Information based discrimination
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None of the above
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Chapter 3 - How is the Ku Klux Klan like a group of Real Estate Agents?
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What was the name of the gang that was the basis of S. Venkatesh's report on Chicago's poorest black neighborhoods? 86
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The Black Disciples
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Black Guerilla Family
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The Mungiki
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Crips
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Who was the gang member who gave S. Venkatesh the gang's financial books? 88
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If drug dealers make so much money, why are they still living with their mothers? 93
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They don't make much money
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To keep the house clean
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So they don't look suspicious to others in the community
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They don't want to spend money for an expense which they can get free from mom
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According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the most dangerous job in the United States is : 94
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a fireman
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a policeman
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a crabcatcher
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a timber cutter
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The problem with crack dealing is the same as every other profession: 95
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a lot of people are competing for very few prizes
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taxes and expenses are too high to manage
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a poor economy and a competitive job market
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none of the above
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One of the few ways a foot soldier could distinguish himself- and advance in the tournament- was by 98
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proving his mettle in making the most sales
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proving his mettle for violence
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proving his mettle for making the most number of followers
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proving his mettle for gang politics
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What is demonstrably true is that Oscar Danilo Blandon helped establish a link-between Colombian cocaine cartels and inner city crack merchants - that would alter American history. By putting massive amounts of cocaine into the hands of street gangs, Blandon and others like him gave rise into a devastating crack boom. And the gangs like Black Gangster Disciple Nation were given new reason to exist. 100
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While crack was hardly a black-only phenomenon, it hit black neighborhoods much harder than most. The evidence can be seen by measuring the indicators of societal progress. After decades of decline , black infant mortality began to soar in the 1980's, as did the rate of low birth weight babies and parent abandonment. 103
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Chapter 4 - Why do drug dealers still live with their moms?
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Madame Ceausescu was known officially as : 105
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Best Sister Romania Could Have
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Best Mother Romania Could Have
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Best Protector Romania Could Have
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Best Daughter Romania Could Have
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Ceausescu's incentives produced the desired effect. Within one year from the abortion ban, the Romanian birth rate had doubled. These babies were born into a country where, unless you belonged to the Ceausescu clan or the Communist elite, life was miserable. 106
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The evidence linking increased punishment with lower crime rates is very strong. Harsh prison terms have been shown to act as deterrent (for the would be criminal on the street) and the prophylactic (for the would be criminal who is already locked up) 111
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The broken window theory was conceived by criminologists: 116
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James Q. Wilson & George Kelling
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James Kelling and George Q. Wilson
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James George & Wilson Q. Kelling
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Wilson George and James Kelling
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There are enough guns in the United States that if you gave one to every adult, you would ran out of adults before you ran out of guns. 119
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Who was the economist and main champion of this idea: "We need more guns on the street, but in the hands of the right people." 121
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John R. Lott, Sr.
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Steven Levitt
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John R. Lott, Jr.
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Steven Dubner
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The aging of the American population contributed to the reduction of crime. 124
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According to the author, what sort of woman would most likely take advantage of Roe vs. Wade? 126
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Unmarried
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in her teens
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Poor
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All of the above
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Which two factors show the strongest predictors that a child will have a criminal future? 126
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childhood poverty and childhood abuse
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childhood poverty and single parent household
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Single parent household and childhood abuse
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childhood poverty and alcoholic household
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What a link between abortion and crime does say is this: when the government gives a woman the opportunity to make her own decision about abortion, she generally does a good job of figuring out if she is in a position to raise the baby well. If she decides she can't, she often chooses abortion. 132
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Chapter 5 - Where have all the criminals gone?
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A swimming pool is less frightening than a gun. 138
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Student who entered a technical school or career academy performed substantially better than they did in their old academic settings and graduated at much higher rate than their past performance would have predicted. 145
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Which monumental project did the US Department of Education undertake in the late 1990's? 147
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Black-White Test Score Gap
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Chicago Public School System
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Early Childhood Longitudinal Study
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High stress testing
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The school typically attended by the typical black child is not the same school attended by the typical white child, and the typical black child goes to a school that is simply: 151
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good
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bad
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no distinction
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none of the above
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There is essentially no black white test score gap within a bad school in early years once you control for student's backgrounds. But all students in a bad school, black and white, do lose ground to students in good schools. 151
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Studies have shown that a child's academic abilities are far more influenced by the I.Q.'s of his biological parents that the I.Q.'s of his adoptive parents, and mothers who offer up their children for adoption tend to have significantly lower I.Q.s than the people who are doing the adopting. 157
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In a paper entitled, " The Nature and Nurture of Economic Outcomes," economist Bruce Sacerdote found that by the time adopted children become adults, they had veered sharply from the destiny that IQ alone might have predicted. 162
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Chapter 6 - What makes a perfect parent?
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The first official act a parent commits is : 163
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give the baby a name
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give the baby a christening
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give the baby a trust fund
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give the baby a baby shower
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According to Fryer's study, what were the top 2 "whitest" girl names: 169
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Molly & Amy
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Claire & Emily
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Katie & Madeline
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Hannah & Kathryn
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According to Fryer's study, what were the top 2 "blackest" girl names: 169
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Precious & Nia
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Jada & Tierra
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Imani and Ebony
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Alexus & Raven
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According to Fryer's study, what were the top 2 "whitest" boy names: 169
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Tanner and Wyatt
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Jake & Connor
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Cole and Lucas
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Garett and Dylan
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According to Fryer's study, what were the top 2 "blackest" boy names: 170
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Willie & Dominique
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Jaren & Darius
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Andre & Darryl
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DeShawn & Andre
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Using _________ to control for other factors that might influence life trajectories, it was then possible to measure the impact of a single factor-- in this case a woman's first name -- on her educational, income and health outcomes. 172
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regression analysis
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nonlinear regression
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nonparametric regression
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Bayesian methods for regression
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According to Fryer's study, what were the top 2 most common middle-income white girl names: 174
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Amanda & Megan
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Sarah& Emily
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Elizabeth & Katherine
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Danielle & Rebecca
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According to Fryer's study, what were the top 2 most common low-income white girl names: 175
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Courtney & Rebecca
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Emily & Nicole
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Ashley & Jessica
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Megan & Taylor
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Parents are reluctant to poach a name from someone too near -- family members or close friends--but many parents, whether they realize it or not, like the sound of names that sound "successful." 186
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What the California data names suggest is that an overwhelming number of parents use a name to signal their expectations of how successful their children will be. The name isn't likely to make a shard of difference. But the parents can at least feel better knowing that from the outset, they tried their best. 188
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Chapter 7 - Perfect Parenting, Part II
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In Levitt's view, economics is a science with excellent tools for gaining answers but a serious shortage of interesting questions. His particular gift is to ask such questions. 196
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What is the famous unifying theme of the economics department of the University of Chicago? 206
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The Gospel of Free Economics
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The Gospel of Free Markets
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The Gospel of Research and Writing
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The Gospel of Correlation
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According to Levitt, who was the most influential economist of the last fifty years? 206
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Gary Becker
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D. Gale Johnson
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Len Bias
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Seth Roberts
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Who was the NBA first round draft pick and cocaine user whose death in 1986 caused Congress to pass legislation requiring a five year mandatory sentence for selling just five gram of crack. 213
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Brad Daugherty
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Chris Washburn
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Len Bias
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Chuck Person
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Who is the psychology professor who started a lifetime of self-experimentation? 213
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Robert Rosenthal
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Seth Roberts
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Casey Mulligan
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Charles Hunter
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What was the name of the 1976 law enacted in New York that fined $50 for failing to pick up after your dog? 218
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pooper law
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scooper law
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pooper-scooper law
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pick up after your dog law
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The most fundamental rule of economics is that a rise in price leads to less quantity demanded. 227
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"The IRS role is to help the large majority of compliant tax payers with the tax law, while ensuring that the minority who are unwilling to comply pay their fair share." 236
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Chapter 8 - Epilogue
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Chapter 9 - Bonus Material Added to the Revised and Expanded 2006 Edition
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Chapter 10 - Notes
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