Correlations are helping you to see the world in a different way. And you need to learn how to drive people by incentives
Freakonomics helps you make better decisions by showing you how your life is dominated by incentives, how to close information asymmetries between you and the experts that exploit you and how to really tell the difference between causation and correlation.
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