- Amateurs are better than experts.
- Boys are the biggest victims of sex discrimination.
- Hard work is more important than intelligence for success.
- Breast-feeding's benefits are more correlation and causation.
- Car seats are less safe than just a seatbelt.
- Global cultural homogenization is good.
- Drug dealers don’t make more money than the working poor
- Gay marriage is good for Conservatism.
- New Orleans shouldn't be rebuilt.
- Obesity is not an epidemic, but America's obsession with it is.
This is just the top 10, the rest are worth looking into as well. As usual, this was shown to me by the internet's great hunter-gatherer, Tyler Cowen.
Nice. I have a Google alert for "counterintuitive". (The results are usually less than pleasing.)
ReplyDeleteI am really curious how TC filters his information. He only subscribes to a few blogs, so maybe all of the material is sent by readers? But then wouldn't he put a hat tip next to the links? My best guess is just that he has a system for reading a bunch of newspapers at warp-speed.