Stephen Dubner
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We've all been accused of things we did.
We've all gotten off with things we did and didn't get caught.
But when you're accused of something you didn't do, you feel this outrage.
And I feel like that's the temperature of the far end of the spectrum.
I thought I was living in a world that made sense and now it doesn't.
I had one in ninth grade, maybe in school.
So I was a good student.
It came kind of naturally.
We had good brain power in the family and I was the youngest of eight.
And so I kind of knew the stuff before I got to the grade, which was handy.
I knew the French just because being in the family was like being in school.
And I was decent at math.
I liked math.
On a math test, I had the teacher bring it back to me.
Like she made me stay after class.
teacher, she was convinced that I had cheated on the test.
I got like a 97 on the test.
I didn't know what to say.
I'd never cheated.