Marti Louther

“In summary, our socialization engenders a common set of racial patterns. These patterns are the foundation of white fragility: • Preference for racial segregation, and a lack of a sense of loss about segregation • Lack of understanding about what racism is”
― Robin DiAngelo, White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism

“Even people trained in statistics and probability theory failed to intuit how much more variable a small sample could be than the general population—and that the smaller the sample, the lower the likelihood that it would mirror the broader population.”
― Michael Lewis, The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds

“So many problems occur when people fail to be obedient when they are supposed to be obedient, and fail to be creative when they are supposed to be creative. The secret to doing good research is always to be a little underemployed. You waste years by not being able to waste hours. It is sometimes easier to make the world a better place than to prove you have made the world a better place.”
― Michael Lewis, The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds

“A part of good science is to see what everyone else can see but think what no one else has ever said. The difference between being very smart and very foolish is often very small.”
― Michael Lewis, The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds