Stephen Dubner
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And none of those are good.
Oh, yeah, that's right.
And it didn't matter.
Although the one emotion I hadn't considered for myself was feeling betrayed by him, even though that probably wouldn't have been inappropriate.
And I sit and I tell him the whole story.
I tell him the guy who gave me all this information because he knows him.
He worked with him.
And he just said, none of that makes any sense.
I don't know what you're talking about.
I was convinced that we were right.
So I ended up writing in the New York Times a column that explained this mistake we'd made.
But that's what journalists do.
That's what writers do.
If you get had or if you make a mistake, you have to admit it.
So anyway, that was a long way of saying that I don't think there's anything in Freakonomics that we would do really differently for the people we were then.