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22. What If TV Isn't Bad for Us?

Freakonomics, M.D.

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Why Violence Is Lower After Violence Movies?

Gordon and stephano collected revenue data to see how many people were seeing each movie on any given week end. They also gathered crime data from across the us. What they found was not at all what they expected to find. For a million people watching a strongly violent movie, we had a drop of about one point three % in violent crimes.

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