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“It’s implausible to believe that officers—or anyone else—can be immersed in an environment that repetitively exposes them to the categorical pairing of blacks with crime and not have that affect how they think, feel, or behave.”
― Biased: Uncovering the Hidden Prejudice That Shapes What We See, Think, and Do
― Biased: Uncovering the Hidden Prejudice That Shapes What We See, Think, and Do
“To grasp how different a million is from a billion, think about it like this: A million seconds is a little under two weeks; a billion seconds is about thirty-two years.”
― Infinite Powers: How Calculus Reveals the Secrets of the Universe – A Revolutionary History from Ancient Greece to Modern Technology
― Infinite Powers: How Calculus Reveals the Secrets of the Universe – A Revolutionary History from Ancient Greece to Modern Technology
“In mathematical modeling, as in all of science, we always have to make choices about what to stress and what to ignore. The art of abstraction lies in knowing what is essential and what is minutia, what is signal and what is noise, what is trend and what is wiggle. It's an art because such choices always involve an element of danger; they come close to wishful thinking and intellectual dishonesty.”
― Infinite Powers: How Calculus Reveals the Secrets of the Universe
― Infinite Powers: How Calculus Reveals the Secrets of the Universe
“When the police kill unarmed black suspects, those deaths are associated with a significant dip in the mental health of blacks across the entire state where those killings occurred.”
― Biased: Uncovering the Hidden Prejudice That Shapes What We See, Think, and Do
― Biased: Uncovering the Hidden Prejudice That Shapes What We See, Think, and Do
“You have to try everything, for consumerist man is haunted by the fear of 'missing' something, some form of enjoyment or other. You never know whether a particular encounter, a particular experience (Christmas in the Canaries, eel in whisky, the Prado, LSD, Japanese-style love-making) will not elicit some 'sensation'. It is no longer desire, or even 'taste', or a specific inclination that are at stake, but a generalized curiosity, driven by a vague sense of unease - it is the 'fun morality' or the imperative to enjoy oneself, to exploit to the full one's potential for thrills pleasure or gratification.”
― The Consumer Society: Myths and Structures
― The Consumer Society: Myths and Structures
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