All 3 Uses of
optimistic
in
Freakonomics
- 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
Definition:
expecting the best; or focusing on the good part of things