Wednesday, June 21, 2006

Quote of the Day (Yesterday)

"After the OJ Simpson verdict, one of the jurors appeared on TV and said with absolute conviction, 'Race had absolutely nothing to do with my decision,'" psychologist Joshua Aronson says. "But how on earth could she know that? What my research with priming race and test performance, and Bargh's research with the interrupters, and Maier's experiment with the ropes show is that people are ignorant of the things that affect their actions, yet they rarely feel ignorant. We need to accept our ignorance and say 'I don't know' more often."
--Blink, p. 71

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