Words Worth Noting - April 14, 2021

“In one experiment, for example, a group of subjects is told that a man parked his car on an incline, after which it rolled down into a fire hydrant. Another group is told that the car rolled into a pedestrian. The members of the first group generally view the event as an accident; the second group holds the driver responsible.”

John Allen Paulos, A Mathematician Reads the Newspaper