"THE WORLD THROUGH ROSE-COLORED BLINDERS: A NEW MATHEMATICAL MODEL FOR HOW SOCIETY BECOMES POLARIZED"<p>I have a problem with the mixed metaphor in the title. You do not look through blinders, they are opaque. They are meant to block the line of sight, their color is immaterial but it is usually black.<p>Glasses on, the other hand are translucent and may be tinted. The idiom of 'rose-colored glasses' is supposed to suggest that if someone looks at --or [another idiom] thinks about, that is to say looks at with the mind's eye-- something with rose-colored glasses then they think that it is more pleasant than it really is.<p>Normally I wouldn't be as picky as this, but the linked reference is supposed to be a scholarly work from a leading educational institution. I mean we might have to tolerate something like this from a proprietary "University" like The University of Phoenix or Capella University or ITT Technical Institute, but from Stanford? Come on, give me a break, OK? Get your ducks in a row --that's an idiom, too.