Authority
Freakonomics' authority rating.
What is 5?
Freakonomics' accuracy rating.
What is 4?
Freakonomics' appropriateness rating.
What is 3?
Freakonomics' literary artistry rating.
What is 4?
Freakonomics' attractiveness rating.
What is 5?
Levitt uses his expertise as this throughout his book.
What is an economist?
The authors admit to having a wrong fact cited in their book, so they created this revised edition with no inaccurate sources.
What is the second edition?
Chapter three includes these kinds of dealers, which makes the book less suitable for a classroom environment.
Who are drug dealers?
The facts are interesting and engaging, but the blank and reasoning is a bit wordy, and sometimes hard to understand.
What is commentary?
The cover's picture presents these two types of fruits, which represent "the hidden side of things"
What is an orange and an apple?
Levitt and Dubner cite this criminologist, and his book called “Long-Term Historical Trends in Violent Crime.”
Who is Manuel Eisner?
This trusted journal article wrote about the same disappearing instance as in Freakonomics on page 25.
What is L.A. Times?
Levitt and Dubner's intended audience.
Who are educated adults?
Freakonomics contains this type of evidence to support claims and engage the reader.
What are anecdotes?
The quote on the cover of the book states this by Malcolm Gladwell.
What is "Prepare to be dazzled"?