{"id":2090,"date":"2011-11-23T12:46:56","date_gmt":"2011-11-23T17:46:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.encoretechresources.com\/insights\/?p=2090"},"modified":"2012-01-09T20:03:34","modified_gmt":"2012-01-10T01:03:34","slug":"freakonomics-insights-for-our-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.encoretechresources.com\/insights\/2011\/11\/23\/freakonomics-insights-for-our-times\/","title":{"rendered":"Freakonomics: Insights For Our Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Encore&#8217;s Dennis Owen is a fan of Freakonomics podcasts, web broadcasts of insights from Stephen J. Dubner and Stephen D. Levitt, the authors of the best-selling book of the same name. &#8220;I like the range of things they address and the human behavior aspects of their programs\/topics,&#8221; he explains.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s like Dennis. He has a wide-ranging curiosity and enthusiasm for engaging quirkiness and offbeat creativity, the kind of insights you find in abundance on the Dubner\/Levitt Freakonomics blog. For example, they use the vagaries of football <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freakonomics.com\/2011\/11\/20\/football-freakonomics-is-momentum-a-myth-2\/\">to examine the question<\/a>, &#8220;Is Momentum a Myth?&#8221; On the Freakomics site, they have a podcast video devoted to the subject that concludes: &#8220;The truth is that you\u2019re bound to get a wild 32-point-comeback once in a while, just as you\u2019re bound to get a streak of 10 or 12 heads too. But just as the physical world cannot escape gravity, the statistical world cannot escape what\u2019s called &#8216;regression to the mean.&#8217; Those wild streaks, as fun as they were, have very little bearing on what happens next.&#8221;<br \/>\n<!--more--> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.encoretechresources.com\/insights\/wp-content\/uploads\/about-billboard1.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.encoretechresources.com\/insights\/wp-content\/uploads\/about-billboard1-300x162.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"about-billboard\" width=\"300\" height=\"162\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2112\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.encoretechresources.com\/insights\/wp-content\/uploads\/about-billboard1-300x162.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.encoretechresources.com\/insights\/wp-content\/uploads\/about-billboard1.jpeg 627w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>So take that from the journalist (Dubner)\/ economist (Levitt) team who have hit it off so well <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freakonomics.com\/about\/\">as commentators<\/a> on the vagaries on the fortunes of our lives and times. Check them out, if you haven&#8217;t already. \u2013 <em>Doug Bedell<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Encore&#8217;s Dennis Owen is a fan of Freakonomics podcasts, web broadcasts of insights from Stephen J. Dubner and Stephen D. Levitt, the authors of the best-selling book of the same name. &#8220;I like the range of things they address and the human behavior aspects of their programs\/topics,&#8221; he explains. That&#8217;s like Dennis. He has a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-communication"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.encoretechresources.com\/insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2090"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.encoretechresources.com\/insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.encoretechresources.com\/insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.encoretechresources.com\/insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.encoretechresources.com\/insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2090"}],"version-history":[{"count":32,"href":"http:\/\/www.encoretechresources.com\/insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2090\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2281,"href":"http:\/\/www.encoretechresources.com\/insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2090\/revisions\/2281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.encoretechresources.com\/insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.encoretechresources.com\/insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.encoretechresources.com\/insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}