1. Why do most people get the wrong answer in the case of Linda the bank teller? I find that people generally tend to solve this case under the optical illusion of C containing more information regarding Linda’s occupation thus they incline to perceive C as a more probable answer, given in this particular case of C stating two different statuses, thus wrongly claiming C to be the correct answer. There are lots of theoretical factors regarding the answer, such as her personality, age, or past and the hypotheses about the numbers of bank tellers in comparison to feminists, though one has to approach this with having the answers outlined as equally probable by exactly 1/3 regardless of how one description of Linda’s occupation is more detailed …show more content…
If there is one willing to issue bonds with guaranteeing a certain interest to the bond buyers, there could be either individuals or business entities willing to purchase those though in the latter case there might be an additional financial analysis required to approve the transaction. Lots of investment funds possess other people’s money hence they are often legally obliged to invest them reasonably up to some point of risk and not operate any loose ended transactions, which is usually stated by limiting the fund to invest in particularly well rated bonds by agencies such as Standard & Poor’s or Moody’s Investors Service are. Nevertheless there may be a third party, the credit default swap seller, insuring the bond buyer’s principal, unless its security ranking is below the minimum mutually agreed upon, which enables the bond buyer to invest in bonds initially rated below the minimum in exchange for paying the credit swap seller a percentage of the bond’s interest. The principal is to be paid back to its investor at maturity of the bond by the issuer and that is essentially what the credit default swap seller is responsible for, in case of a default, excluding the eventual interest. However, such scenarios are based on trust in the insurer that she can comply with her security rank from an …show more content…
Usually the consequence of systemic risk taking place is a recession thus a slowdown of the flow of money unless a minimal risk is involved which could have been noted during the economic crisis in 2008. Nevertheless, as well as particular sorts of risks, interrelated companies could also be a part of systematic risk should they represent a significant part of their respective industries. Idiosyncratic risks generally affects whatever the investor in the same way since it stems in rather uncontrollable aspects, such as inflation or deflation, interest rates increasing or decreasing and tax policies changing. The important key to cope with idiosyncratic risk is to diversify one’s investments and try to minimize the eventual consequences of the risk thereby, which could be demonstrated on sports betting. The moment the match is on, contradicting bets will be of increasing and decreasing odds according to the score which sooner or later provides the bettor with a possibility of an “insurance” by placing a stake on the contradicting bet secondary to the initial one so that he or she break even at
Betty Dukes, 54-year-old Wal-Mart worker claimed sexual discrimination based on the claim that in spite of working at the store for six years and with positive reviews on her performance, she was denied the necessary training required to advance to a position of higher salary (Toobin, 2011). The court held
Linda and Arica was in a car accident on 9-19-15. Linda was intoxicated while driving. They were taken to Singing River Hospital via ambulance. The report did not state if they were injured, per the reporter. While at the hospital, cocaine was found in the purse (unknown who looked into her purse).
All of Hayes’ questions circled back to the major theme of her past work as well as a question that plagues most college-aged students; What defines your identity: race, sexual orientation, gender? Hayes used a small focused community in order to see if they had a greater or lesser struggle when characterizing themselves as well as how they differed from other communities. The results of her interview demonstrated that as one girl said “they are in a community that seems like a fairytale but they still face the same problems as the outside world.” Even within such a small community where women are grouped together into a single category by the observing world there is still an abundance of individuality and diversity of race but also of opinion. It seemed as though Hayes used questions that asked about their choices in coming to a women’s college, their sex lives, and their political ideology in relation to their school to make them identify as being straight, lesbian, or bisexual, male or female, feminist or not.
Society has attributed personality characteristics to an individual’s identity but this should not be accounted for in court cases because discrimination is often overlooked when a discussion of characteristics arises as seen in the case of EEOC v. Sears, Roebuck & Co. (1986). In EEOC v. Sears, Roebuck & Co., Sears made a convincing argument about men and women’s fundamentally different employments interests and values. This led EEOC to lose its case, which argued women were being discriminated against due to the lack of women working in commission sales. Women were attributed characteristics of not being interested in working at night, not being competitive, and not willing to take risks. These attributes would lead the district court to
Chapter 12 deals with financial crises, systemic or nonsystemic, refer to the most recent crisis and how it began. Financial crisis is to a phenomenon in which an economy is characterized by a continuous and significant reduction of economic activity. Through years there have been thousands of crises occurred for various reasons, but if we focus to the one that we experience today we can say that is a result of housing asset bubble. Asset bubble occurs when there is a sudden increase in the value of bond, equities, real estate, etc. In combination with the rapid spread of subprime loans and the transfer of risk from banks' balance sheets to the public and investors through securitization, the crisis resulted in an impact in social and economical
This masculine mindset is challenged by Shannon Faulkner who applied to and was granted access to the academy. However, she did not mark her gender declaring whether she was female, which in turn led to a very notorious court case. Dr. Leslie bell is a sociologist and psychotherapist, who is an expert in women’s development and sexuality. She is also the author of Hard to Get: Twenty-Something Women and the Paradox
Regardless of the woman’s credentials, the interviewer may already have a predetermined decision based solely on gender. With this act, interviewers were forced to look at the women’s
While addressing the congress of the United States, Chisholm gives many statistics to ground her arguments. Statistics such as, “..women occupy only 2 percent of the managerial positions.” More than half the population of the Unites States are female, there approximately 3 1/2 more women than men in America and not one woman stands on the AFL-CIO council or the Supreme Court. Shirley Chisholm also claims that laws protecting the rights of not only women, but different ethnicities as well, need to be amended. “But they [laws] can be used to provide protection for those who are most abused..”
Women have come a long way throughout history from the right to vote to be able to work in the workplace. They have faced a lot of discrimination but have been able to fight through each situation, but yet there are disparities between men and women in the workplace from the pay gap to positions. But why are these disparities present? Katty Kay and Clarie Shipman, writers of the article The Confidence Gap, believe the answer is confidence. This article argues that the reason why women do not pursue higher positions is due to low confidence through a pathos appeal directed at the audience, an ethos appeal given by the credibility of the authors, and a logos appeal by a variety of statistics and studies.
As modern society has made clear, women have the ability to perform with equal skill and success in virtually every endeavor engaged in by men, including employment, athletics, academics and politics. Yet discrimination on the basis of sex has a long history in the United States, and its residual effects still operate to keep women's salaries lower and opportunities fewer in the employment
As people tend to grow older and more mature, they learn the difference between right and wrong. Before they really mature, they tend to do things that they do not necessarily perceive as wrong, but what may be viewed as wrong by their peers. As people mature they learn this difference between what is really right and what is really wrong. Updike’s “A&P” exhibits how prevalent sexism was in the 1960’s through Sammy’s point of view, how people can be ignorant to what sexism is, and displays how sexism still exists today.
Madam C.J Walker got married at 14 years old to escape abuse from her brother, Jesse Powell. When her husband died, she left to care for herself and her baby girl, A’lelia. She headed up North and settled in East St. Louis, Illinois, and found work as a laundress. Her side job was doing other black women’s hair in St. Louis. Madam C.J.
In the white press, gender became the essential element around which their careers were interpreted. In addition race was always a factor but it was secondary to gender and this is why Althea Gibson suffered from the emphasis on gender which was that the public began to perceive her tennis playing as too masculine. 3. Describe the gendered construction of stereotypical white femininity in 1940s-1950s America, and explain how these stereotypes differ from those that surround African American femininity?
In these countries, the topic of gender discrimination derives strongly held opinions that conclude that the justice system cannot contest sentencing disparities derived from race, class and gender backgrounds. Among the judicial system players, there are several factors that lead to leniency in sentencing women as compared to men. It has been found that in an example of shoplifters, women who engage in shoplifting will highly likely be single mothers who do not have enough money to feed their children and mostly go for food stuffs. On the other hand, men engaging in shoplifting do so to support their drug habits or seemingly expensive lifestyles.
Diminishing of risk towards zero is as a result of diversification, which can reduce firm-specific risk. Diversification does not however reduce market risk, to