At yesterday's extending reading I was start to read the fourth chapter of Freakconomics, and I felt it is filled with a lot of facts which is conflictive and contratry.
This chapter take parenting experts as a example: they usually choice to bold rather than restraining in order to catch your eyes. By using the fearmongering strategy, these experts seems to help parents doing the wrong decisions. The book provides so many comparable groups: guns and swimming pools; mad-coe disease and a common pathogen; and flying and driving. But fear can manipulate human emotion very well, therefore, most experts rely on it.
Not only how parents could bring up their children appropriately, but also how much do parents really matter has been asked in this chapter. For answering this radical question, the author reveal so many facts and data which reveal the shocking truth: parents matter just simply due to people hope it so.
You bring up a lot of interesting points, especially abut how fear can change people's behavior. I thought that was one of the most fascinating sections of this chapter.
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