In the best selling book,"Freakonomics"(2006), the authors,
Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner, discuss real estate agents
and highlight two disturbing correlations:.
Dubner told what he called the"disgusting and ridiculous" story of how the
thin Japanese man shattered world records and redefined competitive eating at Nathan's Famous Fourth of July hot-dog eating contest in Coney Island, N. Y.