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A woman with her baby fathered by a German is escorted down the street and out of town by an angry mob after she had her hair cut off and was humiliated in a town in France, 1944

Magdalene Asylums, Also Known As Magdalene Laundries. Places Of Reform For Women That Didn’t Fit The Idea Of A Good Upstanding Citizen and Unwed Mothers

Advice for the Young/34: The Bias Blind Spot makes precisely the most educated and thoughtful people perceive biases in others, but not in themselves

Pronin, E., & Hazel, L. (2023). Humans’ Bias Blind Spot and Its Societal Significance. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/09637214231178745

Abstract: Human beings have a bias blind spot. We see bias all around us but sometimes not in ourselves. This asymmetry hinders self-knowledge and fuels interpersonal misunderstanding and conflict. It is rooted in cognitive mechanics differentiating self- and social perception as well as in self-esteem motives. It generalizes across social, cognitive, and behavioral biases; begins in childhood; and appears across cultures. People show a bias blind spot in high-stakes contexts, including investing, medicine, human resources, and law. Strategies for addressing the problem are described.

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Abandoned hospital (Beelitz Heilstatten) Germany Nov 2011

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Advice for the Young/33: Grasshoppers systematically put into a weakened condition became worse at taking advantage of randomness by making unpredictable escape movements

Condition dependence of (un)predictability in escape behavior of a grasshopper species. Gabe Winter, Luis Wirsching, Holger Schielzeth. Behavioral Ecology, arad047, https://doi.org/10.1093/beheco/arad047

Abstract

(Un)predictability has only recently been recognized as an important dimension of animal behavior. Currently, we neither know if (un)predictability encompasses one or multiple traits nor how (un)predictability is dependent on individual conditions. Knowledge about condition dependence, in particular, could inform us about whether predictability or unpredictability is costly in a specific context. Here, we study the condition dependence of (un)predictability in the escape behavior of the steppe grasshopper Chorthippus dorsatus. Predator–prey interactions represent a behavioral context in which we expect unpredictability to be particularly beneficial. By exposing grasshoppers to an immune challenge, we explore if individuals in poor condition become more or less predictable. We quantified three aspects of escape behavior (flight initiation distance, jump distance, and jump angle) in a standardized setup and analyzed the data using a multivariate double-hierarchical generalized linear model. The immune challenge did not affect (un)predictability in flight initiation distance and jump angle, but decreased unpredictability in jump distances, suggesting that unpredictability can be costly. Variance decomposition shows that 3–7% of the total phenotypic variance was explained by individual differences in (un)predictability. Covariation between traits was found both among averages and among unpredictabilities for one of the three trait pairs. The latter might suggest an (un)predictability syndrome, but the lack of (un)predictability correlation in the third trait suggests modularity. Our results indicated condition dependence of (un)predictability in grasshopper escape behavior in one of the traits, and illustrate the value of mean and residual variance decomposition for analyzing animal behavior.

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