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Freaky Economics and Why most soccer players are born in Jan, Feb and March

By geophilips ⋅ May 11, 2006 ⋅  Email This Post ⋅  Print This Post ⋅ Post a comment

Ever since reading that cult book called ‘Freakonomics’ which everyone and his dog seems to know about,I have been an ardent fan of Steven Levitt’s peculiar brand of data analysis. (Not just me, as an aside, one of my female friends liked him so much that she said he’d make an ideal husband. When I pointed out that the guy is supposedly ultra frail, short and bespectacled ie massive geek, she said she didnt mind…go figure!)

Aside from being very intelligent, Levitt’s writing also throws up the most non-intuitive but true facts you can imagine. Some of you Levittians might know that he also writes a column for the New York Times under the same title. Check out yet another fascinating Levitt hypothesis here, the implications of which could be really useful in the Indian context as well.