“Looking into it a bit, Jamie found that the model used by Wall Street to price LEAPs, the Black-Scholes option pricing model, made some strange assumptions.” MadeUsedFoundBitsBlackStreetsStrangeWallModelsAssumptionLeapJamieScholesPricing Book:The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine (movie tie-in) Source: The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine (movie tie-in)
“A silly society is a youth-obsessed society: To the Chinese, who appreciate the value of experience, the greater the ratio in a team of grey 'hairs and no-hairs' to 'black hairs' the faster and better a task will be completed. The opposite assumption obtains in the youth-obsessed U.S.” ValuesBlackGreaterTeamYouthHairAppreciateTasksOppositesSillyChineseFasterObsessedAssumptionGreyRatiosBlack HairGrey Hair Author:Ilana Mercer
“First, you have stereotypes, and that will be the black drug dealer, the east Asian kung fu master, the Middle Eastern terrorist in 'True Lies.' Then you have stuff that takes place on culturally specific terrain, that engages with it, but actually subverts assumptions. 'Smashes' stereotypes. That's where I've come into the game.” FirstsLyingGamesStuffBlackMiddleMastersDrugEastTerroristAssumptionStereotypeEasternAsianDealerTerrainKung FuDrug DealersTrue Lies Author:Riz Ahmed
“Mainstream medias representation, or its guerrilla decontextualization, of black mens lives in particular can set the stage for erroneous assumptions capable of damaging an individual or a nation.” IndividualNationsBlackStageParticularCapableAssumptionMainstreamRepresentationGuerrillas Author:Aberjhani
“Assumptions that racism is more oppressive to black men than black women, then and now ... based on acceptance of patriarchal notions of masculinity.” MenBlackAcceptanceRacismNotionAssumptionMasculinityBlack Women Book:Yearning: Race, Gender, and Cultural Politics Source: Yearning: Race, Gender, and Cultural Politics