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“Experts”—from criminologists to real-estate agents—use their informational advantage to serve their own agenda.
Knowing what to measure and how to measure it makes a complicated world much less so.
W. C. Fields once said: a thing worth having is a thing worth cheating for.
Mark Grace once said, “If you’re not cheating, you’re not trying.”)
people will pay different amounts for the same item depending on who is providing it.
Women’s rights advocates, for instance, have hyped the incidence of sexual assault, claiming that one in three American women will in her lifetime be a victim of rape or attempted rape. (The actual figure is more like one in eight—but the advocates know it would take a callous person to publicly dispute their claims.)
“The fetus is the property of the entire society,” he proclaimed. “Anyone who avoids having children is a deserter who abandons the laws of national continuity.”
(Another minor contributor to the falling homicide rate is the fact that some crack dealers took to shooting their enemies in the buttocks rather than murdering them; this method of violent insult was considered more degrading—and was obviously less severely punished—than murder.)
balancing your intelligence and your intuition to arrive at a glimmering new idea.
