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Comment author: NancyLebovitz 15 July 2010 02:54:05PM 2 points [-]

The most obvious example of incentives overcoming bias (in the colloquial sense, which I think includes the sense you mean) is blacks and sports in the US. It eventually became clear that excluding excellent athletes didn't make financial sense.