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...unlike Loser Williams’ name, Levitt??s title is—to some extent—fitting. Levitt??s book probes a cornucopia of freakish everyday anomalies. Doesn’t it freak you out that eight percent of men on dating websites are married? It’s also pretty freaky that when the U.S. tax code began to require Social Security numbers for listed dependents, seven million American children “disappeared.” Who knew that such fun and interesting questions could be solved through incredibly difficult multiple regressions...
...analyze Chicago’s test scores, Levitt looked for trends typical of a cheating teacher and developed an algorithm to identify them. Levitt??working with Kennedy School Assistant Professor Brian A. Jacob ’92—flagged classrooms in which students’ exams evinced unusual strings of identical answers in the middle of the test. The researchers found that some teachers were actually altering their students’ tests—erasing wrong answers and filling in the correct bubbles themselves—to boost scores. The study resulted in six teachers being fired...
Kremer was not available for an interview, but wrote in an e-mail that he admires Levitt??s work...
...knows it is New York. It begs the question: Were these pictures not taken in New York, would they carry the same emotive force? Given the set of ready associations that the city has in our cultural memory, likely not. However, this is Gotham unlike many have ever witnessed. Levitt??s is the New York of people—of stories in the naked city, of personal, simple events of everyday people: a concrete jungle transformed into an urban garden...
...impression may be stretching Levitt??s intent a little, but such is the nature of her artistry. Her ability to capture the unconscious essence of her subject matter almost compels her viewers to construct a past, present and future narrative for all of her prints. Her work is untitled, leaving us to formulate our own caption for the events we see and to attempt to decipher and infer exactly what is going...