The book "blindspot" has me doing quizzes.💙📚

The IAT measures associations between concepts. They ask you to enter your beliefs through a selection about topics and then give you the conclusion. 🧪

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"Disclaimer: IAT results are provided for educational purposes only."

The general vibe for American life as a bookworm right now…
#booksky

"A father and his son are in a car accident. The father dies at the scene and the son, badly injured, is rushed to the hospital. In the operating room, the surgeon looks at the boy and says, "I can't operate on this boy. He is my son"

How can this be?

Mahzarin R. Banaji & Anthony Greenwald 💙📚

"The experimenters computed an “intuition index” to measure accuracy. They found that putting the participants in a good mood before the test by having them think happy thoughts more than doubled accuracy. "

Daniel Kahneman “Thinking, Fast and Slow”💙📚

"We meet at meals three times a day, and give each other a new taste of that old musty cheese that we are. We have had to agree on a certain set of rules, called etiquette and politeness, to make this frequent meeting tolerable, and that we need not come to open war. "

Henry Thoreau's "Walden”💙📚

"God is alone,—but the devil, he is far from being alone; he sees a great deal of company; he is legion. I am no more lonely than a single mullein or dandelion in a pasture, or a bean leaf, or sorrel, or a horse-fly, or a humble-bee."

Henry David Thoreau's "Walden”💙📚

🇸🇻 El Salvador has offered to detain deportees from the U.S., including dangerous criminals and even U.S. citizens, for a fee, as part of a deal with the Trump administration.
ground.news/article/el-s...

A great quote-

“I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it.”
— Edith Sitwell

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