Is distinctive black culture the cause of economic disparity between whites and blacks or merely the reflection of it?
Humans respond to incentives.
Have fun, think small, don’t fear the obvious.
It’s much better to ask small questions than big ones.
People respond to incentives—
Aficionados
Tetlock’s words, even when their predictions prove.
An incentive is simply a means of urging people to do more of a good thing and less of a bad thing.
Repository
For emotion is the enemy of rational argument.
Empiricists
La moral representa el modo en que a las personas les gustaría que funcionase el mundo, mientras que la economía representa cómo funciona éste en realidad.
Tragedy of the commons
When moral posturing is replaced by an honest assessment of the data, the result is often a new, surprising insight.
Tis much better to do a little with certainty and leave the rest for others that come after than to explain all things by conjecture without making sure of any thing.
Nor should failure be considered a total loss.
Incentivize them on the dimensions that are valuable to them but cheap for you to provide.
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Conventional wisdom dies hard.
Young women in Cameroon have their breasts ironed—beaten or massaged by a wooden pestle or a heated coconut shell—to make them less sexually tempting.