Heads or Tails: The Impact of a Coin Toss on Major Life Decisions and Happiness [pdf]
During a corporate training once, our tables were given the task of deciding which of a set of personas would receive a liver transplant based on some provided biographical data. The big reveal was undoubtedly to be how our biases informed our decision.<p>I convinced the rest of the participants that choosing was in fact immoral and the only fair way to decide who lived and died was a lottery.<p>The explanation that Alice the loose woman (really! old material I guess) was getting a new liver because she was <i>lucky</i> was not a well received.