Think Like a Freak

by Steven D. Levitt

(As Daniel Patrick Moynihan was famous for saying: “Everyone’s entitled to their own opinion but not to their own facts.”)

By 2005 or so, it will become clear that the Internet’s impact on the economy has been no greater than the fax machine’s.”

Every time we pretend to know something, we are doing the same: protecting our own reputation rather than promoting the collective good.

Fecal matter is obtained from a “donor” and blended into a saline mixture that, according to one Dutch gastroenterologist, looks like chocolate milk.

The slang used by some doctors (“shit swap”) is no better.

“we call it a ‘transpoosion.’”

being confident you are right is not the same as being right.

The plural of anecdote is not data.)