Saturday, December 17, 2005

An Obscure Observation

State: Nilanjan Sen irritated with the faint chanting of 'madhushala' by neeraj sharma in the background.

Anyway, that is not the observation.

I was reading Freakonomics and in the book the author compares two very different groups ... sumo wrestler with school teachers ... ku klux klans with real estate agents ... etc ... May be that is the unifying theme - relationship between Generally-Perceived-to-be- Unrelated-Groups

Anyway, the interesting part is that every time he has to acknowledge a community of normal people, who are cheating (ie, cheating school teachers, unethical real estate agents, etc) he does it by a FEMALE GENDER.

'A cheating teacher may tell herself that she is helping her students, but the fact is that she would appear far more concerned with helping herself.'

'The study found that an agent keeps her own house on the market an average ten extra days, waiting for a better offer, and sells ir for over 3 percent more than your home.'

Charming, huh?

0 Comments:

Post a Comment

<< Home