This document presents summaries of cases from the book "Freakonomics" by Akshay Seth, Nishant Tyagi, and Saurabh Sudhir. The first case discusses a girl named Temptress whose misdeeds in court were attributed to her unfortunate name by her poorly-parented mother. The second case is about brothers named Winner and Loser whose lives contradicted their names. The document then lists names that signify low or high socioeconomic status of white parents and poses questions about the impact of names. It next teases a case about disappearing criminals before shifting to discuss the potential for corruption in sumo wrestling rankings which are determined by match wins and can impact a sumo's livelihood and

1. Good Morning Everyone!!!
presenting you
Glimpse of some
Cases from
“Freakonomics”
By:
Akshay Seth
Nishant Tyagi
Saurabh Sudhir

2. CASE 1 CASE 2
CASE 3

4. What’s in a name?
There was a girl, Temptress whose misdeeds landed her
in New York Court. The Judge asked her mother, How her
daughter name was named? Her mother told it
happened eventually mistake from her side in spelling of
Actress name Tempestt Bledsoe to Temptress. Then
Judge wanted to know the meaning of her name. But
they didnt actually knew that she was actually “living out
her name”. Her daughter was charged with ungovernable
behavior, which included bringing men into the home
while the mother was at work.
It isn’t much of a stretch to assume that Temptress didn’t
have ideal parents. Not only was her mother willing to
name her Temptress in the first place, but she wasn’t
smart enough to know what that word even meant.
People who can’t be bothered to come up with a name
for their child aren’t likely to be the best parents either.

5. What’s in a name?
A man named Robert Lane had two
sons, Winner and his brother, Loser.
By the name only, we can easily guess their
destiny, BUT it went up side down.
Loser become successful detective via
scholarship in his school time and graduating
through college.
Winner, having the sheer length of Criminal
Record, had 3 dozens of arrest for all kinds of
crimes in his life.

7. Ten white girl names that best signify
low-society parents:
Angel, Heaven, Misty, Destiny,
Brenda, Tabatha, Bobbie, Brandy,
Destinee, Cindy
Ten white boy names that best signify
low-society parents:
Ricky, Joey, Jessie, Jimmy, Billy,
Bobby, Johnny, Larry, Edgar, Steve

8. Ten white girl names that best signify
high-society parents:
Lucienne, Marie-Claire, Glynnis,
Adair, Meira, Beatrix, Clementine,
Philippa, Aviva, Flannery
Ten white boy names that best signify
high-society parents:
Dov, Akiva, Sander, Yannick,
Sacha, Guillaume, Elon, Ansel, Yonah, Tor

9. Time to Ponder upon
• So does the name you give your child affect his
life?
• Or is it your life reflected in his name? In
either case, what kind of signal does a child’s
name send to the world—and most
important, does it really matter?
• Individuals with distinctively black names do
tend to have worse life outcomes. But why?
• If you have a really bad name, should you just
change it?
• What your parents were telling the world
when they gave you your name?

10. Case 2:
Where have all the
criminals gone?????

18. Sumo Wrestling : Purification, rituals and honor
It’s very religious - SHINTO Priest

19. Important Question
Is there any chance of
Cheating/Corruption in this
sport??
Steven Levitt Says “Yes there is a chance”
Answer

20. Each Sumo is associated with a Rank
Higher Rank : life with comforts, luxury and RESPECT
Lower Rank: life could be miserable without money
and RESPECT
The whole Ranking
Structure is a kind of
Pyramid

21. Six Tournaments – Every Year
Each tournament has 15 Matches
A Sumo who win 8 out of 15
Matches, then his Rank is Increased by
half a slot
Which means $5000
Paycheque per month + lot
of Respect

22. Sumo A
8:6
Sumo B
7:7
Ideal Case
50 : 50
Analyzed Case
25:75
Huge
Deviation

23. Not a Coincidence
Sumo B has lot of things to gain
Sumo A has nothing so much to loose
There is a chance that Matches were Rigged
Rigged is also known as Yaocho in
Japanese Language
Which is a kind of Taboo Word

24. Some other Incidents
Whistle Blowers were found
dead in a mysterious situation
Which tells that there is
something going wrong

25. Basic Conclusion
People are covered with a Mask
This Mask is made up of
Purity, Religion and Honor.
“Economics could be a pure science
which could help us in this Impure
World”

26. Thank
You!!