I'm trying to better understand the relationship between incentivization and rationality, and it occurred to me that it is a "folk fact" around here that large financial incentives don't make cognitive biases go away.
However, I can't seem to find any papers that actually say this. It's not easy to google for (I have tried) so I wonder if the Less Wrong collective memory knows how to find the papers?
Is there a pattern to which biases go away with incentivization? Do we have at least 5 examples of biases that go away with incentivization and 5 examples that don't go away with incentivization?
As an incentive, I'll paypal $10 to the commenter whose answer is least biased and most useful.
Have you heard of prejudice based on shoe quality and uniqueness, which would be difficult to achieve for someone who has a non-standard foot aspect ratio?
(Maybe I should have said something in my initial comment about how having wide feet affects shoe selection? I mean, something else.)
I find it hard to interpret your request for information about a pity party for men who have trouble finding wide shoes as anything other than an attempt to be annoying.
I'm curious about why you're describing any of the material posted about clothing for fat women as a pity party.
As for you and shoes, under normal circumstances, you'd have my sympathy.
So far as I know, the relative rarity of wide shoes is the result of either a rational estimate that it's harder to make money selling unusual sizes, or a not quite rational lack of effort to notice a business opportunity.
On the other hand, it's a common belief that if fat women had access to good clothing, they'd have less incentive to lose weight.
I'm trying to better understand the relationship between incentivization and rationality, and it occurred to me that it is a "folk fact" around here that large financial incentives don't make cognitive biases go away.
However, I can't seem to find any papers that actually say this. It's not easy to google for (I have tried) so I wonder if the Less Wrong collective memory knows how to find the papers?
Is there a pattern to which biases go away with incentivization? Do we have at least 5 examples of biases that go away with incentivization and 5 examples that don't go away with incentivization?
As an incentive, I'll paypal $10 to the commenter whose answer is least biased and most useful.