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The first day at Lowood.
I really missed this book. The last time I read it I was still in middle school and did it in Chinese. Some parts still stick with me.

Volume 3 Chapter 7

Availability heuristic
- the experience of retrieval trumps the number of instances they are able to retrieve
- people are affected by the ease of their ability to retrieve a event (system 1), which increases their confidence of judgement on an event
- people are also impacted by the content that they are able to retrieve (system 2)
- surprises interfere the ease of retrieval

Availability heuristic
- the experience of retrieval trumps the number of instances they are able to retrieve
- people are affected by the ease of their ability to retrieve a event (system 1), which increases their confidence of judgement on an event
- people are also impacted by the content that they are able to retrieve (system 2)
- surprises interfere the ease of retrieval

Chapter 11

System 1 disregards ambiguity and jumps to the conclusion with little info we know (which helps to fit into a congruent pattern), it’s proved that it is bad at dealing with quantity. Rather, system 1 quickly forms a prototype and generates image based on it. “Halo effect”.
Mental shotgun: we compute more than we need

System 1 disregards ambiguity and jumps to the conclusion with little info we know (which helps to fit into a congruent pattern), it’s proved that it is bad at dealing with quantity. Rather, system 1 quickly forms a prototype and generates image based on it. “Halo effect”.
Mental shotgun: we compute more than we need

Active association
Prime effect (system 1)
- prime in words (people who just eat food will fill in so(u)p rather than so(a)p
- prime in actions (portrait of a dictator primes obedience)
Money primes individualistic values -> selfishness/alone wolf
- priming effect works in reverse
Smiling gives rise to enjoyment
Enjoyment reinforces smiling

System 1 & System 2
Automatic system - Working system
Effort is the currency in the economy of attention
We cant control how much exactly the effort is invested in each task, but effort will be distributed based on a priority
Index: pupil dilation -> pupil dilates when our mind is at work, contracts when we stop trying

Onto bonus material.
School lottery in Chicago proved that high school choice matters very little for students’ performance; it’s simply an indicator of qualities like ambition, motivation, etc.

Black-White performance gap in education proves that black kids underperform since they entered school

Unique black names is correlated with economic penalty, tho merely an indicator of parents’ SES

How much does parenting matter?
Does school choice matter in high school?
Black and White kids performance gap in early childhood
What affects a child’s academic performance?

Abortion rate -unwantedness-criminal rate
Risk = hazard + outrage

They leave Hailsham for Cottage. In this place they are treated like animals. I guess this is the second to last step to prepare them for their tribute status in the real world.

All kids in Hailsham cant conceive life. Why? Why being healthy is so important to them? Os that because they are some sort of blood bank for the rich? Where are their parents? Are they selected from orphanages? The gloominess looming over in a self-aware innocuous narrative reminds me of Promised Neverland.