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From the Ted Talk by Anne Milgram: Why smart statistics are the key to fighting crime

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Now, the great news about all this, and we have a ton of work left to do, and we have a lot of culture to change, but the great news about all of it is that we know it works. It's why goolge is Google, and it's why all these baseball teams use moneyball to win games. The graet news for us as well is that it's the way that we can transform the American criminal justice sstyem. It's how we can make our streets safer, we can rcedue our prsoin costs, and we can make our system much fairer and more just. Some people call it data science. I call it mlyabnenliog criminal justice.

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Now, the great news about all this, and we have a ton of work left to do, and we have a lot of culture to change, but the great news about all of it is that we know it works. It's why ______ is Google, and it's why all these baseball teams use moneyball to win games. The _____ news for us as well is that it's the way that we can transform the American criminal justice ______. It's how we can make our streets safer, we can ______ our ______ costs, and we can make our system much fairer and more just. Some people call it data science. I call it ____________ criminal justice.

Solution

  1. prison
  2. system
  3. great
  4. reduce
  5. moneyballing
  6. google

Original Text

Now, the great news about all this, and we have a ton of work left to do, and we have a lot of culture to change, but the great news about all of it is that we know it works. It's why Google is Google, and it's why all these baseball teams use moneyball to win games. The great news for us as well is that it's the way that we can transform the American criminal justice system. It's how we can make our streets safer, we can reduce our prison costs, and we can make our system much fairer and more just. Some people call it data science. I call it moneyballing criminal justice.

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