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Freakonomics Journal

please refer to this video and watch the black community segment and its access to job opportunities ( minutes 10 to 20) and take a deeper dive answering the questions belowin 1 page maximum

  

 

Questions:

  • What is the question in this segment of the movie?
  • What is the data that was used to answer the question? (how was it obtained?)
  • Did the data answer the question?

Example: In the very first part of the movie is an examination of real estate transactions.

  • The question in this segment is whether real estate agents sell houses the same for themselves as they do for clients
  • The data used was a database of real estate transactions
  • The data seemed to indicate that real estate agents worked differently for themselves than they did for clients. The segment also posited that they made more money when it was their house.