HW 9

Freakonomics

#1
In Freakonomics the protagonist’s use three main moves to give evidence for their movie. The fist moves the protagonist’s uses are skits in which they bring real life situations to the people watching. This allows them to better understand what is happening on a basic level so they can relate. The scene in the movie about children getting better grades for money shows a human level connection.

Another move that the protagonist’s use in the film is the ability to show and explain data. Data was shown in the sumo scene to represent the links in evidence that showed fowl play was involved in the sport. Which was the link they were try to show about fowl play in the food industry.

The last move I saw the protagonist’s use was cartoons. The scene about one of the protagonists dough’s getting m&m for going to the bathroom on the toilet was better told in cartoon form because it would be hard to show just by descriptions.

#3
In my option the authors relied on life experiences as their main scores of evidence. Life experiences were two out of the four skits used to prove their point. This is a good idea for the author because it can connect to people on a more personal level and they can relate more to the people in the movie.


Freakonomics serves as an inspiration and good example to our attempt to explore the "hidden-in-plain-sight" weirdness of dominant social practices.

I disagree with this statement because I don’t believe that any hard evidence was given to me to use this movie as an inspirational example of exploring social practices. I think this because the movie was very vague in it’s evidence. For example in the scene with the sumo wrestlers, they no hard numbers to back up there statements, just numbers running down the screen. As well they had professionals on the same topic contradicting one another, which does not make me think they found good examples to use. The veil on the other hand that they talked about over the sumo league did make a good example of the veil the Food industry puts on Americans.