Doesn't matter if it's fair…as long as you win

Social Sciences In a world of increasing economic inequality, how does the public perceive the causes and fairness of wealth disparity? To measure the effect of unequal outcomes on individual perceptions of fairness and inequality, Molina et al. devised a card game that separates the equality of opportunity from game outcomes, player skill, and luck. In this setting, players who were dealt a great hand were more likely to (incorrectly) attribute...