Comparing Dubner And Levitt's Freakonomics

The book Freakonomics by Stephen J. Dubner and Steven Levitt challenges conventional wisdom to find a hidden side of everything. The book takes some of America’s most controversial topics such as, cheating, the Ku Klux Klan, drugs and Roe vs. Wade and challenges common knowledge by asking provocative questions. Did you know that if you give a school teachers a large enough incentive, then they will cheat to win? At first when Dubner and Levitt proposed this question I did not believe them. I would have never thought that the people who lecture us year after year making sure we do not cheat were hypocrites; I was wrong. In 1996, the Chicago Public school systems decided to put into place an incentive program for teachers; if the teachers teach
The trust between the citizens of Chicago and California and their public school system broke. Our world is built on the perception that institutions and their workers are perfect. Dubner and Levitt challenged this belief by showing that everyone is human and mistakes are made but, that does not dismiss the fact that what the school teachers did was wrong. The authors of the book helped me to understand that no one is perfect; there will always be room for improvement with everything that we do. I have taken this concept into my life by deciding to enter my self-choreographed solo from last year in upcoming competitions. I have already started to revise some of the moves to make my dance better based on the criticism I received last year from the judges. In all of our lives, there are times when we have to make a crucial decision that will change the course of our path; for the school teachers in Chicago they had to decide how they wanted to improve their student’s test scores. Multiple teachers opted for an inappropriate way however, this does not mean that they are a bad person, it means they made a