In the movie Freakanomics they show how your name affects you and what kind of lifestyle you’re going to have. If you have a ghetto name then you’re probably going to grow up and go to jail a couple times and not have a positive outlook in your life. This isn’t true it depends on where you live and it’s just a coincidence that people with the names such as Tyshawn, Sheniqua or Tyaisha just are in jail or steal pregnant at a young age. In the movie they show that correlation is the causation but that people like to believe that it is. Before you meet someone and you learn their name your automatically going to get a image in your head of what you think the person’s skin color is or how they act or where they from, that’s just from their name and it’s a natural thing because everyone does it if not always on purpose. But the movie does prove that correlation leads to causation. This is when applying for something either a job or college anything that you are chosen on just by an application. The Indian guy in the movie showed how two job applications were sent out and both had the same exact qualifications only one had a very white name I guess you can say, and the other name was Tyrell. It only took 10 weeks for the application with the white name to find a job and about an extra 5 weeks for the name Tyrell to find a job. So I agree with the correlation is causation but only when you are in the situation were your not going to physically see the person or talk to them and its just your name that’s known. But that’s how life is when it comes to names people tend to look too much into it and believe that they know everything bout the person already. If I my name was put on a college application they would probably automatically assume that I was white or anything not black especially since Kristin isn’t a common black name. They would probably be surprised when I came into the interview and find out that I was anything but white. That would probably then change their whole assumption of who I was and what they thought of me. I also think people shouldn’t be judged by their names because a name isn’t what makes your who you are its just a word to identify yourself with.
In the movie the authors uses incentives to make their point and prove it they find evidence. One of their studies was seeing if students will get better grades if they are given the incentive of money. So to figure out if it would work or not they paid students who were able to get their grades up. One boy was going to try and bring his grades up with the incentive that he was going to be paid and that then he could buy skateboard stuff but he ended up failing. While another boy was really excited and actually did improve his grades and did get paid which shows that incentives does work but I think it depends on what it is and who the person is. If they had gave the other boy the incentive of meeting a Pro skateboarder a year supply of skateboard equipment I believe he probably would of tried to do better. The authors look for the evidence they believe will prove their point and by doing that they run test, ask regular people off the street questions, or people who have studied or know personally about what they are looking for. For the sumo wrestling they wanted to know if people were planning the fights and paying people to cheat. So to find out they asked retired sumo wrestlers who then even confessed that they were in on the cheating to at times and that the reason it was used is because there was an incentive. So basically everything revolves around incentives people will do whatever it takes if they are given a good incentive to do it.
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