Our very own Jetta Knight loves to throw around that humans are bad at assessing risk. On that he and I agree, we just don’t reach the same conclusions. This Ben Shapiro article is certainly interesting on that topic.
“One of their key findings was that human beings are naturally loss-averse — we generally are willing to forego the probability of gains in order to minimize the chance of losses.”
To avoid losing folks were willing to trade independence for masks, shutdowns, and forced vaccination.
“Because of our loss aversion, human beings are also subject to what Kahneman and Tversky label the “planning fallacy”: our self-serving bias toward believing that we are capable of planning for contingency more successfully than we are.”
Yes sir, so many willing to give anything to those that they believe have the answers. They really trust them.
“What if our policymakers aren’t concerned with counterbalancing loss aversion on behalf of more productive risk-taking? What if, instead, our policymakers lie to us, and tell us that risk is no longer necessary at all?”
Talk about confirmation bias!
“As a society, we have become so addicted to the elimination of risk that we are willing to believe any politician who provides us a purported roadmap. A large percentage of the country believes in nearly religious fashion that all risk can be mitigated, so long as we grant the authorities and experts absolute power.”
This is where don’t question the science comes from.
I contend that those clamoring for the vaccine, wanting the force of government to be used against fellow citizens cannot individually assess the danger and just want the risk dealt with by others…
https://www.dailywire.com/news/the-end-of-risk-and-the-end-of-civilization
“One of their key findings was that human beings are naturally loss-averse — we generally are willing to forego the probability of gains in order to minimize the chance of losses.”
To avoid losing folks were willing to trade independence for masks, shutdowns, and forced vaccination.
“Because of our loss aversion, human beings are also subject to what Kahneman and Tversky label the “planning fallacy”: our self-serving bias toward believing that we are capable of planning for contingency more successfully than we are.”
Yes sir, so many willing to give anything to those that they believe have the answers. They really trust them.
“What if our policymakers aren’t concerned with counterbalancing loss aversion on behalf of more productive risk-taking? What if, instead, our policymakers lie to us, and tell us that risk is no longer necessary at all?”
Talk about confirmation bias!
“As a society, we have become so addicted to the elimination of risk that we are willing to believe any politician who provides us a purported roadmap. A large percentage of the country believes in nearly religious fashion that all risk can be mitigated, so long as we grant the authorities and experts absolute power.”
This is where don’t question the science comes from.
I contend that those clamoring for the vaccine, wanting the force of government to be used against fellow citizens cannot individually assess the danger and just want the risk dealt with by others…
https://www.dailywire.com/news/the-end-of-risk-and-the-end-of-civilization
