Steven D. Levitt's Freakonomics

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“Perfect Parenting, Part II; Or: Would a Roshanda by Any Other Name Smell as Sweet” is the sixth chapter of Freakonomics by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner. This chapter leads off tells a story of four different people with names that are not typical. One child, named Temptress, was charged in family court. One named Loser who became a success in every sense of the word. A man, named Winner, has a criminal record longer than this paper I am writing. It asks if the names of these people determine fate or not? Is there a correlation that can be picked out? Surprisingly enough all were black. A young economist named Roland G. Fryer Jr. is one of the current scholars who are advancing the thought on how black culture works. According to

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