Yihua: "Freakonomics"

[fiefoe]

Clever, with appropriate sprinkle of endearing expressions like regression and correlation.

On why drug dealers have lost some of their appetite in killing each other:
1. Crack has gotten much cheaper, dealers under-priced each other, profit vanished to the degree that it’s not worth killing someone to steal their turf.
2. Some crack dealers started shooting their enemies in the buttocks rather than murdering them.

Part of the schedule the state of CT uses to compensate for work-related injuries:

Finger (first)		36 (weeks of pay)
Finger (second)		29 (w.o.p)
Nose			35 (w.o.p)
Eye			157 (w.o.p)
Heart 			520 (w.o.p)
Penis			35-104 (w.o.p)
Vagina			35-104 (w.o.p)

(Deciding where in the range one falls when such unfortunate event happens can be sensitive.)