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9-29-11 Steven Levitt was trying to say that names do not mean anything on how the rest of your live will portray. The video was saying that there is a common difference between white people and black people’s name, but it’s the location of where you live at has the effect on his or her name. Names may affect someone’s life by not getting a job or going to college. For example in the video they made five thousand resumes exactly the same, but their names were Tyrone and Greg. This experiment showed that Tyrone got 33% less calls back from colleges. The data proved that if you have an outrageous name your son or daughter has less chance of getting a job or going to college.

As the years slowly past the names of black people gradually started to get more interesting, to make their culture stand out more. Proven in the video the unique names given to their kids reflect where that family live in the community. When Mr. Lane named his two sons Winner and Loser the opposite of what we all thought happened. Loser ended up going to college getting a degree and becoming a chief in the police force, unlike Winner who became famous for robbery and crimes that he committed to get in jail. The life style of the sons had a huge tool on Winner, he did not move out of a black community and that played the role in his life. From the Freakanomics video I do not think the name matters a single bit, I think the person themselves makes them who they are, not their name. include component="comments" page="Stats" limit="10"

In Freakanomics Steve was talking about how would Sumo wrestlers cheat in a thousand year heritage to their culture. Later in the video you find out that the wrestlers do cheat by trying to keep up their rating. The video said that “a wrestler with the rating 7-7 would most likely win over a wrestler of 8-6”. This is because the higher rating wrestler can go up in ranks no matter if he wins or loses, so the 7-7 wrestler would win to increase his rank in the Sumo wrestler status. Even though it is cheating people do not really think of it as cheating, people think of this as the lower ranked person trying harder to win, but later on is the same to would wrestle the wrestler with the 8-6 rating would win 7 out of 8 times. Also, in the video the policemen would use the crimes that they knew they could solve so they would be known for solving that crime. The officers would just leave the crime is there was no visible evidence of the Sumo getting killed. The one Sumo was the beating and tortured by his Stable master was going to get let go because they had no visible evidence of who killed him, but later in the autopsy that the father recommended, they found out that the body was burned with cigarettes and beaten with bear bottles.
 * 1)** **Summarize the Article.**

Teachers and Sumo’s cheat because they do not want to make themselves look bad. A teacher cheats for her students because if here students are making bad grade the teacher looks like he or she does not know how to teach right. Sumo’s cheat because they are trying to be on the highest rank Sumo level for a better life. So, a higher ranked Sumo wrestler would let the lower ranked wrestler win because he would move up in the rankings and the higher wrestler would stay the same.
 * 2)** **Why do sumo wrestlers and teachers cheat?**

The mean was 75% of the wrestler who needed 1 win would end up getting that 1 win. If it was an even match up the wrestler had a 50% chance of winning. The wrestler who let him win had a higher rating, so even though he lost it would not matter to his rank because he has a better rank to start with.
 * 3)** **Using mean and the deviation from the mean how does Steven Levitt prove that sumo wrestlers cheat?**

4) **How is the mean used to accuse the police of covering up murders?** The police officers have a 95% success rate for solving their crimes. This was because the policemen would pick the crimes that they knew that they could solve. If they did not know who the murderer was they would not pick that crime because they did not know how to solve it. So the policemen would somewhat cheat the system by choosing the crime they knew they could solve