Examples Of Being Deviant

The second example from the podcast of being deviant is when David Romer was saying don’t punt and you’ll have a better chance at winning the game. On average you can win two extra games a year when you don’t punt during a football game. This is a threshold because it’s a small group of people that know each other and punting has always been the way to do it. The only way one person would change this is if a radical person would step up and go first, then after that other coaches would try it. This is an example of being deviant because punting on the fourth down is what a coach would usually do, but in this case if you don’t punt at all during a game it’s against the norm for society. If you didn’t punt people would see it as doing the wrong