Freakonamics

In the movie "Freakonamics" there were many tactics used in the film to explain and to show different ways of examining the world and asking questions that give answers about how everyone in the world thinks and goes through different things. A tactic used was analyzing statistics they used this against the sumo wrestlers that were accused of cheating and was proved that there was cheating because one sumo spoke up against the rest and wanted people to know what was going on. The researchers analyzed the evidence and found out that the underdog in the wrestling match would win 75% of the time because they have more to gain since there opponents had higher records and they were already near the highest rankings. This mad wrestling more entertaining. Using this tactic help proved that the wrestling matches were set up and was a lie.

In the movie there were experiments done they used that as a tactic to prove things. There was an experiment that was on whether a person with a "white" name would get a response on a job application faster then a person with a "black" name. They sent out applications with names like Deshawn for black people and they sent out names like Brad for white people and the study show that people with whiter names get there job application answered and accepted faster then a person with a black name. There was also a experiment done on kids, they would give kids $50 dollars a week or month if they complete a certain academic list of things and if they did that they also got a chance to win $500 dollars also. The study showed that around 5%-7% of the kids grades actually went up.

Evidence was relied on heavily in this movie and there really are a lot of "hidden in plain sight" weirdness going on in the world because sadly there still is a lot of racism going on today and the evidence proved it to me in the movie. Also there was a section in the movie that said that the government "helped" us with the drug problems and the murder problems when actually we helped ourselves in that case and they probably helped us in about 20% of what was going on maybe even less. Our world today is also run by incentives they are every where and i know there are plenty incentives in sports also Alex Rodriguez for the New York Yankees will earn about 20 million dollars if he breaks the home run record with the Yankees. Treats and money is what we actually want and that's what makes us do things.