A review by shanaqui
Sway: Unravelling Unconscious Bias by Pragya Agarwal

informative slow-paced

3.0

There was nothing terribly new to me in Sway, mostly because I've read a couple of books on bias and other books with overlapping themes before. I think it could've used some more editing, to avoid so much information needing to be footnoted with long explanations. In some sections, there was a footnote in every page, and not all of them needed to be like that -- less technical terms could be used first to introduce the technical term, or explanations could have been embedded in the text. As it was, it really interrupted the flow, even for me (I generally didn't need the footnoted information, but I had to glance down to check that's what the footnote was).

There's a lot of useful information about bias and how we understand it, though sometimes based on small/unreplicated studies that could've used more discussion.