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 curious about why you're describing any of the material posted about clothing for fat women as a pity party.
Because I'm being asked to pity them? Yes, the comments are nominally phrased as, "Oh, here is a possible case of people being biased even when it would pay not to be", but the obvious tone is, "poor women, no one will make clothes for them even when there's money to be made".
And frankly, when the asymmetic bra issue came up, I got pretty scared. Some of the commenters -- and I'm not going to single anyone out -- sound li...
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.