Ambient Findability What We Find Changes Who We Become
- Author: Peter Morville
- Publisher: O'Reilly
- Released: 26 September 2005
- Pages: 204 on page
- Genre: Internet, Nonfiction
- ISBN: 0596007655 (Amazon)
Highlights
The neocortex stores hierarchical sequences of patterns in invariant form, and recalls those patterns auto-associativly. This lets us recall complete patterns when given only partial or distorted inputs.
— p. 168
...when we take a step, catch a ball, read a poem, or write a book, we draw upon experience to make predictions. We use the past to see the future. Input begets output. Information shapes behavior.
— p. 168
"If you both, own a gun and have a swimming pool in the backyard, the swimming pool is about 100 times more likely to kill a child than the gun is."
— p. 170
Nationwide, nonviolent crime fell by 40% and the teenage murder rate fell by 50%.
So it's unlikely that policing strategies in New York City deserve much credit. And, one by one, Levitt proves most of the other popular explanations to be false as well.
So, how does he explain it? In a word, abortion. Levitt argues that the U.S. Supreme Court's 1973 ruling in Roe v. Wade, which legalized abortion, resulted in an immediate decrease in unwanted children, which led to the drop in teenage criminal activity 15 years later.
— p. 170