Comments on: The argument against Freakonomics http://nofilmschool.com/2005/11/the-argument-against-freakonomics/ NoFilmSchool is a site for DIY filmmakers and independent creatives. Tue, 22 May 2012 17:17:51 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Barbara Saunders http://nofilmschool.com/2005/11/the-argument-against-freakonomics/comment-page-1/#comment-142612 Barbara Saunders Wed, 29 Feb 2012 16:35:36 +0000 http://nofilmschool.com/2005/11/the-argument-against-freakonomics/#comment-142612 "But I think, or at least I hope (and this could be me just being a liberal idealist, which is at least infinitely better than a conservative idealist), that the program has other benefits, social or otherwise, which aren’t easily measurable by available numbers. " It could be a sunken cost that does not have other benefits. Don't get me wrong, I'm not anti-Head Start. My dad ran Head Start programs. But just because it exists doesn't mean it "must" have other benefits. “But I think, or at least I hope (and this could be me just being a liberal idealist, which is at least infinitely better than a conservative idealist), that the program has other benefits, social or otherwise, which aren’t easily measurable by available numbers. ”

It could be a sunken cost that does not have other benefits. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not anti-Head Start. My dad ran Head Start programs. But just because it exists doesn’t mean it “must” have other benefits.

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