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🗓️ 7 March 2021
⏱️ 40 minutes
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0:00.0 | See the sights of the city with the new Toyota Igo Cross. |
0:04.1 | Tawler, bolder and cheaper to run with up to 58.8 miles per gallon. |
0:09.4 | No wonder it's the Sunday Times motoring awards 2022 City Small Car of the Year. |
0:14.5 | Whichever way you look at it, you'll stand out in the new Toyota Igo Cross. |
0:19.2 | Drive tall and book a test drive today. |
0:21.7 | Funiloconomy based on comparing the 58.8 MPG of Toyota Igo Cross versus seven comparable vehicles, |
0:26.4 | and PG based on test conditions and they vary. See Toyota, Toyota UK for details. |
0:32.5 | I do not believe you. That is not possibly true. |
0:36.7 | I'm Antelda Dukworth. I'm Stephen Dubner. And you're listening to no stupid questions. |
0:42.4 | Today on the show, how does when you are born affect who you are? |
0:46.8 | I'm going to have a kid now because it's a lucky year. Also, how did Angela do with her no sugar |
0:53.2 | in the morning coffee challenge? The more cream, the better? Half and half became whole or maybe |
0:58.2 | one and a half. Stephen, we got an email from somebody named Ali Caladine. And I would like to |
1:06.6 | read it to you. Please. Angela and Stephen, does when you are born affect who you are? |
1:12.4 | In my econometrics class, we're talking about instrumental variables. And one thing that has come |
1:17.2 | up is that while you may think that the time of year someone is born is a great random variable |
1:22.6 | that can be used to make more robust estimates. It turns out that when in the year you are born |
1:27.6 | is actually correlated with things like parents income or mental health outcomes. |
1:33.8 | Is it true that people born at different times of the year are different? Does this mean |
1:37.8 | horoscopes are in fact valid? Thanks, Ali Caladine. So the way I would think about this is there |
1:45.4 | at least two major dimensions. One is that the time of year you're born or more broadly the year |
1:53.0 | you're born and what's going on in the world then may have some natural ish effect. But then there's |
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