If there's one thing we know about social media, it's that misinformation is everywhere,

especially when it comes to personal finance.

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The thing about good change is that it often doesn't work the way we expect.

It requires us to have access to accurate information and to accept that acting on that information would represent some kind of improvement in the way things are.

That sounds simple enough.

But we've all heard about research that concludes too much screen time zaps our attention spans and stresses us out, and most of us have come

to agree we'd be better off cutting back. Yet, that example demonstrates the challenge.

Changing beliefs doesn't necessarily lead to changing behaviors.

From KERA in Dallas, this is Think. I'm Chris Boyd.

This is one reason many well-meaning efforts to make work

and school and housing and other things fair for all Americans, regardless of their identities,

have often failed to achieve their goals. We might well agree that nobody's race or sex or

background should affect their job prospects or prosperity, but believing in fairness is not the

same thing as taking action to make it happen. To get to that step, we need to notice the way

culture and systems can either reinforce or remove barriers and understand the ways that small

inequalities can aggregate into enormous obstacles. Nelangjana Dasgupta is Provost Professor of Psychology

and inaugural director of the Institute of Diversity Sciences at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

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