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10. Check the Data: It’s a Man’s World

The Freakonomics Radio Book Club

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The Menstrual Cycle and Its Effects on Women and Men

The menstral cycle does complicate things because it does interact with the results. Women are more likely to experience drug induced heart rhythm abnormalities that can be fatal. So let me throw out a word that's justcon sal by the very virtue of existing that word as quotes. But they work. They weed out incompetent men. Underqualified men are currently being promoted in this quiqumeritocracy that we think we live in. And what quotes do is level the playing field. It seems like a combination of the status quo bius, but also the difficulty that, yes, women and men are different,. Yes, harmonially and in all these ways, it makes your life harder as some

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