Late to the party... but I don't actually see self-pity here.
This is the same old thing that starts all the fights around here: the old PC/anti-PC thing. Should we yell at fat people or give them pretty clothes? It's tiresome. It's all heat and no light. We've all got a right to butcher sacred cows... but now can we add something to the discussion?
What was interesting here was the notion that something like an implicit sumptuary law might be going on; a product that people would and could buy is not widely available because of a moralistic belief. (In this case, that inadequate clothes are a fit punishment for being fat.)
That's a hypothesis. But nobody from here on out was actually engaging with the hypothesis. It's all yay/boo stuff. Man, can't we do better?
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.