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The intensity of risks
When hazard is high and outrage is low, people underreact. And when hazard is low and outrage is high, they overreact.
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Fear...
In a world that is increasingly impatient with long-term processes, fear is a potent short-term play.
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Mother should/must/have to get educated...
Another study has shown that low maternal education is the single most powerful factor leading to criminality.
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Two important factors for a child's future...
These two factors - childhood poverty and a single-parent household - are among the strongest predicators that a child will have a criminal future.
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Conventional wisdom...
We associate truth with convenience with what most closely accords with self-interest and personal well-being or promises best to avoid awkward effort or unwelcome dislocation of life.
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