Sunday, October 16, 2011

morefromfreakonomics!

i love fallacies, and in the "upside of quitting" podcast, they talked about the sunk cost fallacy:  "I've got too much invested in this to quit,"  it's often the best time to quit!  they say kids and animals don't do this...sometimes knowing when to say "fuck it" is a real life skill...
   also, interestingly, in "the decline and fall of violence," they said that in hunter-gatherer societies, 15% of all deaths were from violence, as opposed to 3% in the 20th century, with includes all the wars and mechanized death we cooked up...

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