LSLaunch SentinelReports
Early access — every report is free right now.
Home / Reports / Freakonomics: How to Make a Bad Decision
F
VC Intelligence Report

Freakonomics: How to Make a Bad Decision

Entertainment — What mistake affects umpires, loan officers & asylum judges?
Entertainmentest. 2016
● Verified live
Verdict from HTTP liveness real
last probed Aug 24, 2026
Pulse 40.0 · 1/4
40.0
Pulse Index
1/4 families · real
0.0
30-day Δ
pulse momentum · real
19
HTTP probes
liveness history · real
4
Functional tags
observed attributes · real
Risk read derived from observed signals

Verified live by HTTP probe across 19 observations. Pulse has been flat over the last 30 days. Observation is liveness-only: no tracked press, repository, or traffic rank — existence is confirmed, momentum is unobserved.

HTTP liveness

real
19 probes · Jun 16, 2026Aug 24, 2026aliveredirecteddeadunverified

Signal telemetry

4 families · 1 observed · observed only
Liveness probereal
alive in 63% of 19 probesavg response 5222 ms
Developer tractionchecked · none
No public repository linked — GitHub signals are not tracked for this product.
Press & sentimentchecked · none
No coverage found in the tracked press corpus. Absence of press is itself a signal at this stage.
Web footprintreal
resolved host
freakonomics.com
edge
behind Cloudflare
server
cloudflare
Tranco rank
unranked
Domain age & certificate data not yet collected

Analyst read

generated from the observed metrics above · no external narrative

Freakonomics: How to Make a Bad Decision's listed site resolved live when we last probed it on Aug 24, 2026, so we mark it verified alive. It has fewer than two observed signal families, so no Pulse Index is composed — the evidence strip shows what is and isn’t present. Observed footprint: 4 functional tags. It has no curated competitive-alternative edges yet, so the comparable set below is functional tag-similarity — read it with the confidence flags.

Comparable set

curated alternatives → functional tag-similarity
CompanyBasisOverlapPulse30d ΔStatus
Radio Open Source with Chris Lydonentertainmentsimilar100%35.2+22.4● live
A16z Podcast: Open vs. Closed, Alpha Cities, and the Industries of the Futureentertainmentsimilar100%40.00.0● live
Freakonomics Radio - Why Do People Keep Having Children?entertainmentsimilar100%8.0-32.0● live
Innovation Rising Episode 5: Exponential Medicine Conference Recapeducationtag-overlap100%8.00.0— unverified
Internet History Podcast #133: Gary Flake on Overture, Yahoo and the History of Searchentertainmentsimilar100%40.00.0● live
Important, Not Important: The Podcastentertainmentsimilar100%40.00.0● live
The Twenty Minute VC: Balaji Srinivasan, Co-Founder & CEO @ 21 & Board Partner @ a16zentertainmentsimilar100%8.0-32.0— unverified
The Notion Capital Podcast - 10: Fergus Gloster, Founder at Thomond Technologyentertainmentsimilar100%40.00.0● live

Confidence reflects source and category coherence: curated = an editorially linked alternative; similar = strong functional tag-overlap in the same category; tag-overlap = shared tags only and may be noisy. Overlap is the shared functional-tag ratio (Jaccard) for tag-matched rows. Pulse is the observed-activity index real and 30d Δ its signed month change; a dash means insufficient observed history, never zero.

Structure

observed attributes
Business modelunknown
Liveness tierquiet
Competitive alternativesnone linked
Open sourceNo
Public APINo
Free tierNo
Enterprise tierNo

Funding & team

not in source

No disclosed funding in our sources. Funding data covers only ~1% of the corpus (462 rounds across 79K products), so absence here is unknown, not zero— we don't estimate a number we can't source.

RAW TELEMETRY last 14 probes
PROBEDHTTPORIGIN → RESOLVEDSERVERMSVERDICT
2026-08-24 14:20Z200freakonomics.comcloudflare8122alive
2026-08-17 13:58Z200freakonomics.comcloudflare5308alive
2026-08-10 00:23Z200freakonomics.comcloudflare9509alive
2026-08-08 04:58Z200freakonomics.comcloudflare4231alive
2026-07-31 15:55Z200freakonomics.comcloudflare5760alive
2026-07-26 17:49Z200freakonomics.comcloudflare4164alive
2026-07-18 14:32Z200freakonomics.comcloudflare7397alive
2026-07-14 09:24Z200freakonomics.comcloudflare4563alive
2026-07-04 16:28Z200freakonomics.comcloudflare6236alive
2026-07-03 01:06Z200freakonomics.comcloudflare4836alive
2026-06-24 14:04Z200freakonomics.comcloudflare4681alive
2026-06-23 13:13Z200freakonomics.comcloudflare4840alive
2026-06-21 21:32Z403freakonomics.comcloudflare1539cf_block
2026-06-20 19:38Z403freakonomics.comcloudflare1919cf_block
Full redirect chains, response headers, and DNS records are not captured by the current probe.
Launch Sentinel tear sheet · Freakonomics: How to Make a Bad Decision · as of 2026-08-28 · launchsentinel.com/reports/freakonomics-how-to-make-a-bad-decision · liveness, pulse and press figures are observed data with provenance shown per panel.