Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know about the People We Don't Know

• https://www.amazon.com/Talking-Strangers-Should-about-People-ebook/dp/B07NDKVWZW
• Malcolm Gladwell

The fallacy of transparency: people don’t transparently show their emotions and the expression is not universal.

The story of Sylvia Plath. Suicides are coupled to the method and location. Simply blocking the easy means can reduce suicides drastically. By removing carbon monoxide from public gas, the UK could cut the suicide rate drastically. The same can apply to suicides by guns (Clarke1988British).

Crime is also coupled to specific locations. Most crimes happen in a tiny fraction of street segments. This led to more aggressive, location-specific police intervention, which was shown to be effective in Kansas city. However, the message of location-coupling got lost and this type of policing caused a lot of problems in other places.