La distinción entre una mujer que elige controlar su fertilidad y el gobierno que elige limitar su fertilidad es fundamental y la gente con frecuencia parece perder de vista esta diferencia.
La contratación de un mayor número de efectivos policiales explica aproximadamente el 10% del descenso de la criminalidad en los noventa.
Is it a good idea to pass along a family business to the next generation? (Sure, if your goal is to kill off the business—for the data show it’s generally better to bring in an outside manager.
If it takes a lot of courage to admit you don’t know all the answers, just imagine how hard it is to admit you don’t even know the right question.
He found himself one night in a bar standing beside a gorgeous woman. Would you be willing to sleep with me for $1 million? he asked her. She looked him over. There wasn’t much to see—but still, $1 mi...
Gut hunches are routinely passed off as dogma while conventional wisdom flourishes even when there is no data to back it up.
Gun murders are down? Well, you figure, that must be from all those tough new gun laws—until you examine the data and find that most people who commit crimes with guns are almost entirely unaffected b...
Despite spending more time with themselves than with any other person, people often have surprisingly poor insight into their skills and abilities.
Desde mediados de los años sesenta hasta mediados de los noventa, la actividad ciclónica estuvo moderada por la oscilación atlántica multidecenial, un ciclo climático recurrente, de sesenta a ochenta...
Consider the Iraq War. It was executed primarily on U.S. claims that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction and was in league with al Qaeda. To be sure, there was more to it than that—politics...
But guns are not the whole story. In Switzerland, every adult male is issued an assault rifle for militia duty and is allowed to keep the gun at home. On a per capita basis, Switzerland has more firea...
But as history clearly shows, most people, whether because of nature or nurture, generally put their own interests ahead of others’.
As Albert Einstein liked to say, everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
Armed with information, experts can exert a gigantic, if unspoken, leverage: fear. Fear that your children will find you dead on the bathroom floor of a heart attack if you do not have angioplasty sur...
And while it sounds bad to hear that Americans underpay their taxes by nearly one-fifth, the tax economist Joel Slemrod estimates that the U.S. is easily within the upper tier of worldwide compliance...
And then there’s the tale of an economist on holiday in Las Vegas. He found himself one night in a bar standing beside a gorgeous woman. Would you be willing to sleep with me for $1 million? he asked...
A story, meanwhile, fills out the picture. It uses data, statistical or otherwise, to portray a sense of magnitude; without data, we have no idea how a story fits into the larger scheme of things. A g...
A little girl named Mary goes to the beach with her mother and brother. They drive there in a red car. At the beach they swim, eat some ice cream, play in the sand, and have sandwiches for lunch. Now...
Los padres obsesivos saben quiénes son y generalmente se sienten orgullosos de ello; los padres no obsesivos también saben quiénes son y tienden a burlarse de ellos.) La mayor
It should also be noted that many girls’ names, including Shirley, Carol, Leslie, Hilary, Renee, Stacy, and Tracy began life as boys’ names, but girls’ names almost never cross over to boys.)