Sublime

Intelligence is not only the ability to reason; it is also the ability to find relevant material in memory and to deploy attention when needed.

companies have a strong incentive to exploit behavioral biases, including availability, unrealistic optimism, and anchoring.

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.

No one knows about negative ability labels like members of stereotyped groups. For example, African Americans know about being stereotyped as lower in intelligence.

The evolutionary biologist Joseph Henrich wrote a book called The WEIRDest People in the World.

Tajfel wondered what would happen if, in a laboratory setting, you stripped away every single salient difference between two groups of people, even their personalities, and simply told them they were in one group and not another? He then wondered, if you started adding small differences one at a time, like one group wears glasses and the other