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people have a general tendency to stick with their current situation.
Richard H. Thaler • Nudge: The Final Edition
Racial-group behavior is a figment of the racist’s imagination. Individual behaviors can shape the success of individuals. But policies determine the success of groups.
Ibram X. Kendi • How to Be an Antiracist
Howard Marks • Howard Marks Memo - The Winds of Change
When someone discriminates against a person in a racial group, they are carrying out a policy or taking advantage of the lack of a protective policy.
Ibram X. Kendi • How to Be an Antiracist
companies have a strong incentive to exploit behavioral biases, including availability, unrealistic optimism, and anchoring.
Richard H. Thaler • Nudge: The Final Edition
These studies suggest that being either disadvantaged or advantaged can increase racial bias.
Keith Payne • The Broken Ladder: How Inequality Changes the Way We Think, Live and Die
Asch argued that the screening process sent a message to disabled people that their lives were inherently less valuable than nondisabled lives.
Andrew Leland • The Country of the Blind: A Memoir at the End of Sight
People are irrational about death even when they are not close to death.
Bill Perkins • Die With Zero: Getting All You Can from Your Money and Your Life
famous experiment conducted by psychologists Amos Tversky and Daniel Kahneman, participants were asked to make a decision about administering medical treatment to a sick population of six hundred people.