Freakonomics Ch. 5 – Flashcards
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Written by Ann Hulbert; documenting how parenting experts contradict one another.
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"Raising America: Experts, Parents, and a Century of Advice About Children"
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Where baby sleeps with parents in "family bed".
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Co-sleeping
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Give parents advice, often contradict themselves and others
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"Baby Experts"
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discovered by Peter Sandman; states that people often fear and outrage over threats they cannot control vs ones they can.
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"Control" Principle
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Risk = hazard + outrage
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"Risk" equation
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when hazard is high and outrage is low people underreact; When hazard is low and outrage is high people overreact.
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Weighing Outrage and Hazard
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Perception of the negative consequences that are likely to result from a course of action and the uncertainty of which course of action is best to take
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Perceived Risk
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how much risk there was found to actually be. Hazard supported by data or evidence to prove it.
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Actual Risk
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A measure of the relationship between two variables
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Correlation
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A cause and effect relationship in which one variable controls the changes in another variable
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Causation
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followed 245 lives; found virtually no correlation between child's personality traits, and their adoptive parents
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Colorado Adoption Project
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name for a controversy in which it is debated whether genetics or environment is responsible for driving behavior
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Nature vs Nurture
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Highly educated parents; High socioeconomic status, child's mother 30+, Child Low birthweight, Parent's speak english in home, child is adopted, Parents involved in PTA, child has many books in home
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Factors Strongly Correlated with Test Scores
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Family intact; Parents recently moved into a better neighborhood; mother didn't work between birth and kindergarten; Child attended Head Start, Regularly taken to museums; Child is regularly Spanked; Child watched TV; Parents Read to them every day.
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Factors that do NOT correlate with Test Scores
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Developing an equation that estimates the value of a dependent variable based on the value of an independent variable.
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Regression Analysis
