I'm not sure I agree with that. It seems plausible but I'm not sure people pay that much attention to shoes or for that matter to how "fashionable" people are dressed (there's a necessary disclaimer here that I'm a math grad student. It might very well be different if one were talking about more status and signaling conscious professions like law and business.)
How justifiably confident can you (JoshuaZ) be about the impact of shoes on someone's fashionability and the resulting prejudices people have on that basis? Like you say, you're a grad student, with little real-world experience in this. Everything I've read about the matter says that the shoes men wear do matter.
Because a yes answer to my question would imply that whether or not the answer to your question is "yes" the status issues being discussed in regards to clothing for fat people is not what is causing a lack of shoes for wide-footed males.
But why would it have that impact? Fat women can, introspectively, understand why they don't give a shit about helping wide-footed men, and why they'd take a hit to status if they did so. They are surely capable of inferring therefrom why higher status people don't want to take a hit to help them out.
How justifiably confident can you (JoshuaZ) be about the impact of shoes on someone's fashionability and the resulting prejudices people have on that basis?
Very low confidence. Hence my remark that your claim seemed plausible.
But why would it have that impact? Fat women can, introspectively, understand why they don't give a shit about helping wide-footed men, and why they'd take a hit to status if they did so.
Missing the point. No one is going to take a status hit from helping out wide-footed men. People might get a status hit for helping out &quo...
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.