People Twitter

5228 readers

1588 users here now

People tweeting stuff. We allow tweets from anyone.

RULES:

Mark NSFW content.
No doxxing people.
Must be a tweet or similar
No bullying or international politcs
Be excellent to each other.

founded 1 year ago

MODERATORS

[email protected]

562

Men Are From Mars, and Women Are From Venus (lemy.lol)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

54 comments fedilink hide all child comments

https://beige.party/@RickiTarr/111739354425936987

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] [email protected] 16 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

Basically Freakonomics is kind of bullshit, make you feel smart, fluff.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

That's because Economics is actually boring. Disputes are over how to measure inflation or unemployment exactly, not the exciting things in Freakonomics.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, except the exciting things in Freakonomics are pretty much just correlations. There's no research done to see if there is any cause.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

I think the thing about whether someone's name is "ethnic" sounding having an impact on hiring has some research behind it, as well as other aspects of racial and ethnic discrimination. How much someone's name impacts other areas of their lives, idk.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

I mean, yeah. It was written specifically to be accessible and fluffy. Like none of the non-academic share of the population is qualified or capable of digesting and actual treatment of economics.