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expecting the best; or focusing on the good part of things
- Fox proposed optimistic and pessimistic scenarios.p. 2.2
- In the optimistic scenario, he believed, the rate of teen homicides would rise another 15 percent over the next decade; in the pessimistic scenario, it would more than double.p. 2.2
- The economist Isaac Ehrlich, in an oft-cited 1975 paper, put forth an estimate that is generally considered optimistic: executing 1 criminal translates into 7 fewer homicides that the criminal might have committed.p. 123.9
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