Freakonomics Review

I just finished reading Freakonomics by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner, and I really enjoyed it. I liked the way the book played with stats to show all these interesting points like abortion can explain a drop in crime overall. It was very clever, but I do not know what to do with all of this information now. I feel like I left a very amusing lecture but now I have nothing to do with the information I found amusing. On a random note, I found it very pompous that he opened up each chapter with a congratulatory remark from the New York Times Magazine.