irrationality

“Today’s lawsuit continues the absurdity and irrationality that the industry has come to expect from the defunct organization formerly known as the HFPA.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 28, 2026

They argue that the field has led to a focus on the irrationality of individuals rather than working for “systemic change” like legislation or regulation.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 2026

But Panamanian President Jose Raul Mulino said Sunday that "there is no justification whatsoever for the barbarity committed," calling it "an unforgivable act of irrationality."

From Barron's ● Dec. 28, 2025

It’s simply a matter of taking advantage of structural market irrationality.

From MarketWatch ● Dec. 26, 2025

The possibility of social irrationality resting on a base of individual rationality is suggested by a slight variant of Condorcet’s original example.

From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos

But they can newly explain so many of the irrationalities that are directly a product of the digital age.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 11, 2024

Well, all the reading I do is sort of aimed at the general mission of being more compassionate toward other people's irrationalities and skeptical of my own.

From Salon ● Apr. 9, 2024

In this way, Kirsch accepts the standard story about modernity: that ours is an era of “disenchantment” in which the old myths and irrationalities have been crushed under the boot heel of enlightened techno-science.

From Slate ● Jan. 26, 2023

The crux of the problem, as Cowen points out, is that it’s nearly impossible to understand irrationalities without taking advantage of them.

From Scientific American ● Apr. 27, 2012

"She doesn't mean anything by it," her little world had always said; and put up with the inconvenience of her furies, with the patience of people who were themselves incapable of the irrationalities of temper.

From The Iron Woman by Margaret Wade Campbell Deland