Steven Levitt And Stephen Dubner's Freakonomics

I read Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner’s Freakonomics when I was grade nine. I picked it up as the book I wanted to buy because I wanted to impress upon my group that I was different, intellectually superior and much more mature than them. However, once I started reading it, I was hooked after the first two pages and found putting it down, well nigh impossible, as I found my journey to discovering the ‘hidden side’ to everything, fascinating. From reading the book, I learned several life-lessons. The first being how to increase my knowledge’s bandwidth. It also helped me look at situations from various angles and understand the importance of intricate details. Linking Roe vs Wade to the decline in crime rate in America was an ingenious example. I found Steven Levitt’s deduction about cheating in school tests by scrutinizing data and realizing how teachers too were involved, sheer brilliance. I saw that each situation could have multiple perspectives and each data set could open up endless possibilities. As a consequence, it provided a fillip to my innate curiosity and made me ask ‘What if?’ at every stage. …show more content…
At a couple of my internships, I was asked to interpret data. Instead of giving the standard answers, I drew inspiration from the Freakonomics, made connections to various other policies and the market, which earned me a thank you from you my mentor and a small promotion to the Actuarial Department. Indubitably, Freakonomics was one of the best books I have read. It increased my repertoire, while keeping me hooked to reading it, repeatedly.

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Steven Levitt And Stephen Dubner's Freakonomics

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