I think I might be the only person to use my Tivo for the express purpose of watching commercials rather than skipping them. It’s my version of stopping to smell the roses, really…and if I hadn’t stopped, I wouldn’t have stumbled upon the following advertisement from T-Mobile, which really did speak to me (video [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Discrimination'
T-Mobile Nicely Illustrates My Life’s Work…
May 27th, 2009 · 11 Comments
Advertising · Discrimination · Gender · Just For Fun
Tags: Advertising · Discrimination · Gender · Just For Fun
Confirmation Bias (And Stereotypes) In Action…
May 26th, 2009 · 7 Comments
Behavioral Econ · Discrimination · Gender
Sometimes the posts write themselves, really. From a Facebook reader:
“I was totally surprised to see a girl pic when I got to this page! I came across your writing today for the first time and after a few articles I imagined a dude writing them… I guess that just shows how some people (maybe [...]
Tags: Behavioral Econ · Discrimination · Gender
On The Tradeoff Between Efficiency And Equity, Airline Style…
April 18th, 2009 · 17 Comments
Discrimination · Policy
It’s not very often that I come across an issue where I find it hard to take a stand in one direction or the other, but I am sitting here a bit perplexed on a very nice Friday afternoon. Let me start with a quick primer on the idea of efficiency versus equity:
“Efficiency” refers [...]
Tags: Discrimination · Policy
Personally, I Don’t Want To Be One Of The Boys…
July 30th, 2008 · 8 Comments
Discrimination · Gender
Normally I don’t like to just parrot content from other blogs, but Alex Tabarrok on Marginal Revolution does such a good job of summarizing the latest talk on gender differences and math ability that I had to include it here. Basically, the research shows that males, while having the same mean in terms of [...]
Tags: Discrimination · Gender