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#548 - Tim Harford - Why Is Thinking Clearly So Difficult?
Modern Wisdom
Is It a Good Idea?
A friend's wife is a school teacher and in her class last year she had a sweepstakes where all of the kids choose pregnant. She didn't tell them the actual due date. And sure enough she was getting closer to the time that she was supposed to give birth. Her water is broke on the evening of that day. And she held on to not give birth to the baby until the next day to spite this child that she hated. It sounds like a really inspirational teacher. There were many lessons there. Although I would have said could you not just have the baby and then lie about the birthday? Perhaps yeah. But there's a degree of manipulation and honesty going on here which is
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