Analysis Of Freakonomics

Throughout the Freakonomics there is a lot of juxtaposition how both of the authors use completely different things that are related like what do schoolteachers and sumo wrestlers have in common also how is the klu klux klan like a group of real-estate agents and finally how does a white name and a black name change the way people look at you before seeing you in person.Freakonomics provides you with real life examples of incentives and how they affect human behavior. Freakonomics shows you how everyday situations, purchases, and decisions affect the economy, and how humans are tempted to participate in different activities because of incentives.
What do sumo wrestlers and teachers have in common you might ask the thing is there a bunch of
Real estate agents also have a fear of selling the house for too little or not selling the house at all. A realtor will know the true price of a house but will change the price for the buyer or the seller he we tell what the house is worth more then what it is. Realtors will manipulate the seller's mind to settle for a lower price then what the house is worth problem is to make a sale or not.The klan uses power and knowledge to an extent where its over the top. In Freakonomics it states the they had secret codes in order to be in the clan.when the clan broke up the little get togethers didn't matter any more. So in all the realtor manipulates the seller for the benefit of themselves.Both of these examples show that the klan had secret passwords for exclusiveness and the realtor trying to gain the most
a name like cole. the owner of the company will look at Justin as a better person then De'Andre just because they look at the stereotypes about the black community vs the white community. In Freakonomics there's this part with a dad he names his two son winner and loser lane so the names were supposedly predict the future that they were going to have. So basically one grows up and becomes a police officer, the other grows up drops out of school becomes a drug addict and in/out of jail.The successful one was Loser the dropout and junkie was Winner loser went on to an elite college for being a successful student and athlete. We he got out of college he joined the police force. Winner not so much after serving a prison sentence he was a homeless man living in a shelter go back and forth trying to get his life back on track at 44 years old.So this basically states that you shouldent be judge be you name just becuase it ound like one is more succssful then the other as in black vs. white