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...traditional way, like an auto crash," says Slovic. "That's the dread factor." In other words, the more we dread, the more anxious we get, and the more anxious we get, the less precisely we calculate the odds of the thing actually happening. "It's called probability neglect," says Cass Sunstein, a University of Chicago professor of law specializing in risk regulation...
...black. McWhorther opens the editorial with “imagine him white,” and proceeds to decry the dehumanization of Obama claiming that “he is being [touted] as presidential timber not despite his race, but because of it.” A refutation by Cass R. Sunstein ’75—a former colleague of Obama—in The New Republic’s Open University blog, extensively cites Obama’s credentials as a former University of Chicago Law School professor and a former president of the Harvard Law Review...
...with the university’s continued efforts to diversify—Princeton was the last Ivy to admit African-Americans but now has the highest percentage of black students among all eight members of the league, according to the Journal of Blacks in Higher Education. But Princeton spokeswoman Cass Cliatt said that though the center is “one way to attract students,” the effort “is not just about educating students but about research and shaping policy in the United States.”When asked about the possibility of Princeton recruiting...
...early admission ‘advantages the advantaged,’” Princeton President Shirley M. Tilghman said in a statement yesterday. Princeton officials also said that early admissions programs can cause high-school seniors to make “premature” college choices. Princeton spokeswoman Cass Cliatt said that the school had been considering changes to its early decision program for several years and that Harvard’s announcement facilitated the change.“It would be difficult to make this decision unilaterally,” Cliatt said. “The fact that...
Princeton spokeswoman Cass Cliatt said that the school had been considering changes to its early decision program for several years and that Harvard’s announcement facilitated the change...