[HN Gopher] The Psychology of not wanting to know (2017) [pdf]
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The Psychology of not wanting to know (2017) [pdf]
Author : amitmina
Score : 118 points
Date : 2022-06-21 11:14 UTC (11 hours ago)
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| tpoacher wrote:
| This pdf is a masterpiece in the art of kerning. I had a lot of
| fun poking my eyes out trying to decipher the characters.
| zerop wrote:
| Sometime it's good to if you don't know the details, it helps to
| analyze the problem at high level and might result in creative
| solutions because you don't get caught into details since you
| don't know it. But it's not good always.
| yotamoron wrote:
| Am I the only one who can't understand how Cassandra could
| foresee the future - but somehow failed to see that Apollo is
| about to curse her?!
|
| I mean - WTF?!
|
| The damn god is about to turn her life into living hell, she's
| more then capable of actually knowing it in advance and do
| something about it, and she's like "Nah, I'll just go shoppin'
| for a new tunic"?!
|
| I'm telling you - those subtle inconsistencies make me doubt this
| whole greek mythology thing...
| adrianN wrote:
| Maybe her actions prevented even greater catastrophe.
| jrumbut wrote:
| She must have read _The Aeneid_
| yotamoron wrote:
| I disagree.
|
| She failed - miserably - as mount Olympus' VP of future
| foreseeing, and that's totally unacceptable.
|
| Where's HR in all this? the recruiting manager!? Anyone??
|
| Are those the kind of unrealistically supernatural powers
| baring individuals we want to have in our company?
|
| I don't think so...
| NetBeck wrote:
| Apollo was rejected by a mortal after giving her powers. As a
| god of prophecy, he should have seen that coming.
| oblib wrote:
| I can't say there are many things I do not want to know, but
| there are things I do not want to see like videos/photos of
| deadly car crashes, war battles, murders, etc.
|
| So I also never watch "slasher" movies/TV, or read books that
| depict graphic violence/gore.
|
| I'm not squeamish, I have raised, slaughtered, and dressed
| livestock since I was a teen. That's never been a source of "fun"
| for me though. It has a real life purpose and the end result has
| always been a much improved source of food for my family and I.
|
| I seldom watch anything on TV that has any violence at all and to
| be honest I'm a bit leery of those who go out of their way, like
| to a movie theater, to see it. I'm 62 and this something I've
| done since a was a teen.
|
| I just don't want those images in my memory. I've never looked
| into it but my gut feeling is they desensitize us. Looking at the
| current state of the obsession with owning arms designed
| specifically to murder humans compared to when I was growing up,
| I think there is ample proof of that.
| daenz wrote:
| A different take: videos of horrible things show rare insights
| into behaviors that are only visible before the horrible thing.
| For example, how a robbery goes bad and ends up as a multiple
| murder. Or how someone will hide and wait to kill someone. Of
| course I'd rather not see that stuff in general, but more than
| that, I'd rather have a basic understanding of how those things
| play out.
| kubanczyk wrote:
| I avoid even comparatively mild stuff, e.g. Godfather or Dark
| Knight (peeking at IMDB's top movies), and have done so for
| decades. It's a conscious decision, one I made in my twenties
| and not in any way related to aesthetics, anxiety, being
| childish, or mental issues.
|
| I'm not really advocating it. I don't claim it gives
| superpowers or big benefits (and if anyone claims them, I'd ask
| for hard scientific evidence), but I can just say that any life
| decisions differentiate a person, even if by tiny bit. Looking
| at the whole population, life decisions make people diverse and
| drive them to bump against each other, which is mostly fun, no?
| LocalPCGuy wrote:
| > I've never looked into it but my gut feeling is they
| desensitize us. Looking at the current state of the obsession
| with owning arms designed specifically to murder humans
|
| There have been studies on this and my recollection is that
| despite the "gut feelings" people have about this, it doesn't
| hold up to the level of being able to prove causation. At best,
| there is a level of correlation (not strong). Most I've read
| show that people are able to differentiate between reality and
| "entertainment".
|
| I'd recommend looking into the studies that have been done (and
| be warned, there are also some really bad studies in this area,
| paid for, low sample size, etc.) Also, I fully recognize that
| this is an area we need more study because it's been stymied
| for years by various laws that prevent investment in
| researching anything that is in this area.
|
| Note - I also want to clarify that I am not a gun nut or 2A
| absolutist or anything of that nature and not trying to dive
| down that rabbit hole - so not trying to defend their misplaced
| importance and/or misuse in any way. And I'm also not saying we
| should wait to try things for studies to be done. But I think
| it's important to know the real underlying issues so we work
| toward fixing the problem correctly.
| havblue wrote:
| Have you considered spoiling the book/movie/television show
| after you realize it's making you anxious? If you skip parts in
| the middle or read the ending, your brain won't be waiting for
| the other shoe to drop; it'll be working on figuring out why
| the shoe will inevitably drop in the third act.
| kubanczyk wrote:
| Parent didn't imply any anxiety issues, but you just did, and
| it doesn't look like a coincidence to be honest. If I calmly
| assume that I've seen enough of the piece of art based on a
| meaningful sample, it's kinda hard to maintain my interest.
| amitmina wrote:
| "Technological progress steadily shifts the line between the
| knowable and the unknowable in the direction of Cassandra's
| powers. Advances in genomic analyses and biomarker research will
| put more and more people into situations where they have to
| decide whether they want to know future health issues." Gerd
| Gigerrenzer
| A4ET8a8uTh0 wrote:
| Fascinating study although not exactly what I expected ( I
| thought it would be about brain deliberately ignoring information
| and not allowing it to pass for conscious consideration ).
| Naturally, this is a little different.
|
| What is more interesting is that based on the study only tiny
| fraction of population wants to know regardless.
| worker_person wrote:
| For deeper learning, get a delusional spouse that ignores any
| reality other than the one they like.
|
| You'll wish you ignored this line of reasoning.
| dmfdmf wrote:
| Ayn Rand called not wanting to know the "blank-out" and
| identified _evasion_ as the root of all evil.
|
| http://aynrandlexicon.com/lexicon/evasion.html
| amitmina wrote:
| powerful words! this encapsulates it even better
| slickrick216 wrote:
| This can sometimes be intentional and driven by situational
| circumstance. I've seen this in an incident response setting
| where people at all levels didn't want to know as they'd be
| obliged to deal with it then. Peoples ethics extended so far as
| if they didn't have actual evidence of a thing then it wasn't a
| thing. This was driven by the finder being the one that had to
| fix it. So especially likely to occur to talented people and
| those with initiative as they'd be the ones that have to deal
| with it.
| [deleted]
| kromem wrote:
| You see a lot of the "see no data, hear no data" in the pharma
| industry.
|
| Mandatory reporting and investigation for adverse event reports
| means all sorts of loopholes are jumped through to avoid
| finding out about them.
|
| It's messed up.
| tunap wrote:
| Corporate is rife with pre-meditated liability avoidance
| loopholes. Plausible deniability reigns supreme.
| slickrick216 wrote:
| Exactly mix the plausible deniability with discovery
| processes and you get to the point where people couldn't do
| the right thing even if they wanted to as they don't know
| about it.
| oblib wrote:
| That is so spot on.
|
| When I was in my early teens I started working for a few small
| businesses that made mods to vans for people in wheelchairs to
| drive. I built and installed those as instructed without
| question.
|
| By the time I was in my late teens I realized there were some
| dangerous flaws in some of the things we were doing and began
| pointing them out. For the most part when I did that the design
| was modified to address the flaw, but one time involved more
| than just a tweak and would've been costly and I was told
| "You're not qualified to evaluate this", and that was true in
| as much as I had no degree in engineering.
|
| What I did have by then was years of experience with how things
| break and fail.
|
| One example is a company I subcontracted work for had a design
| for a device that moved the driver's seat in a van backwards
| about two feet on a set of rails so a paraplegic could slide
| from the wheelchair to the drivers seat, and then move the seat
| forward towards the driver's controls. They wanted me to build
| and install them.
|
| They used a rack gear and power window motor for a car to do
| this. The rack gear was made of steel, but the power window
| motor gear was made of plastic and cheap cast aluminum, and
| that plastic gear was all that was holding the driver's seat in
| place.
|
| They had no kind of latch at all to hold the seat in the
| driver's position so it was obvious that in a rear end
| collision the window motor gear and housing would break and the
| driver would be slammed backwards about 2.5 ft and then again
| forwards again with great force.
|
| They really did not want to know that, and refused to make any
| changes to the design. So I told the State inspector about it a
| few weeks later when he came to inspect a van that was finished
| for a client. Even though it was very simple he had no idea of
| how that device even worked, and told me so. So he went to the
| CEO of the company and told them about what I'd told him and I
| was fired.
|
| They went broke less than a year later so as far as I know
| there were never many of those shipped.
| derbOac wrote:
| I can see some of it driven by situations where nothing could
| be done to prevent a negative outcome as well: if a death is
| unpreventable, what's the point in knowing it's coming? I think
| that's implicit in many of the events in the paper's studies
| (or explicit? I didnt read it carefully), this idea that
| they're unavoidable.
|
| Maybe that's consistent with what you're saying, in the sense
| that something unavoidable has infinitely high amounts of cost
| associated with it in terms of rectification or prevention.
| slickrick216 wrote:
| Yeah I can see that in some scenarios there's a no win for
| the business or the team. Especially information spillage
| where the cleanup is usually non effective messy and long.
| Combine that with them not being interesting to work people
| actively avoid them.
|
| There is an I counter example as well. Where there's no
| perceived benefit however there actually is one you just
| didn't realise it. Some sort of FOMO with out the fear and
| you do miss out.
| UIUC_06 wrote:
| There's a very, very good reason for not wanting to know, and
| undercover organizations (legal or otherwise) have always
| exploited it:
|
| You can't spill what you don't know. If you're an illegal or
| espionage group, your members can't be threatened or tortured
| into giving up information they don't have. Similarly, they can't
| give it to WikiLeaks.
| agnos wrote:
| Is knowing the same thing as believing? Maybe I'm missing
| something, but a lot of this seems to hinge on an assumption that
| knowing something with absolute certainty is possible, and a
| meaningful hypothetical scenario in our human cognition.
|
| Predictions (knowing) and their ensuing actions in a non-
| deterministic world are not necessarily isolated from the
| eventual outcome. I'm curious how much of the "willful ignorance"
| is actually avoidance of some sort of self-fulfilling prophecy.
| cryptica wrote:
| This is a huge problem nowadays. I think pretty much everyone has
| been in such situation... This makes me cynical about WTF must be
| going on at the top to require so many people to 'not want to
| know.'
|
| We have a hierarchy made up of layers upon layers of "I don't
| want to know" and people rise to a level proportional to what
| they are comfortable knowing (and keeping secret).
| dirtybirdnj wrote:
| People willfully keeping things secret when it's not even
| necessary has been a huge problem in my career. I get
| disrespect when I want to understand why things are happening.
| It's not reasonable to expect the people who create software to
| solve problems to just blindly write code and not understand
| why things are done in a certain way. It's their JOB to figure
| things out and optimize. Asking them not to look for
| improvement gains is like asking a fish to stop respirating in
| water and move just as fast on land in air.
| gcau wrote:
| I've pondered: if you were given an envelope, written inside it
| is the deepest and darkest secret of the universe/humanity, would
| you want to read it? It could say that we're just in a
| simulation, it could say all politicians are aliens, it could say
| we're totally alone in the universe because any sufficiently
| advanced planet destroys itself from the inside, it could say all
| your family and friends are just Synths and You're in a Truman
| show scenario. Or something worse we can't imagine. If you read
| it and found out something like this you'd go crazy.
| Al-Khwarizmi wrote:
| I think I would like to know most of those. Except my family
| being fake, I guess.
|
| If the letter told me the exact date and time of my own death,
| I might go crazy, though.
| bqmjjx0kac wrote:
| That's a superpower! You can be as risky as you want if you
| know the fixed date of your death.
| adrianN wrote:
| How you react to knowing the date of your death influences
| the date of your death in the universe where you learn the
| date.
| Dudeman112 wrote:
| The mechanism behind it should be able to calculate the
| new date in advance though
|
| It's already taking into account billions of variables
| (if the date is sufficiently far away), billions + 1
| should be easy
| bombcar wrote:
| Now I'm imagining a tablet that continually updates with
| the date and time of your death. Could be an interesting
| short story.
| corrral wrote:
| Rick and Morty did something similar in the episode "Edge
| of Tomorty: Rick Die Rickpeat". Morty got ahold of a
| crystal that showed him what his final moments would look
| like, and the vision updated as his actions changed his
| future.
| pawelmurias wrote:
| All the situations you mentioned I would want to know about.
| deebosong wrote:
| Same. Those scenarios point to more of a "meaning of life"
| and "reason behind it all" types of scenarios, assuming that
| the message-deliverer is trustworthy/ accurate. Knowing such
| weighty matters might heavily shift the way you live, the
| choices you make, and the things you invest your energy and
| time into.
| jrumbut wrote:
| The universe's deepest darkest secret just sounds interesting
| and I must already be living with the consequences of it in
| some way.
|
| I think a more localized version (your spouse or family's
| darkest secret) might be a more difficult decision.
| laszlokorte wrote:
| How would you know that what it says is actually true?
| b3morales wrote:
| That seems to be stipulated as part of the thought
| experiment.
|
| Otherwise, it's a different thought experiment. ;)
| lr4444lr wrote:
| Nah. Even assuming it's true, I'd still be motivated by the
| mystery of who wrote it and why he gave it to me.
| msmenardi wrote:
| As soon as we know any of those truths, we can get started on
| the actual work of doing something about it.
| timst4 wrote:
| Unfortunately we know exactly what's happening: the climate
| is warming at a non-linear rate, chemical pollution is at or
| near extinction levels, fresh water supplies are becoming
| more scarce and privatized, the few own the majority, and war
| is on the horizon. What exactly are we doing about this?
|
| The real problem is hyper-normalization. Humans will one day
| soon normalize their own extinction.
| mistermann wrote:
| How many of them would be able to get by the "That's a
| conspiracy theory [and therefore false]!" (or newer versions
| like "Russian propaganda") subconscious heuristic filters
| that seems to have "somehow" been installed into so many
| minds?
| bertil wrote:
| I'm really confused why the authors barely mention *agency*:
| knowing is fine and useful if you _can do_ something about it.
| Cassandra's curse was not to know but that she wouldn't be
| believed. Every circumstances that I can think of regretting
| knowing something (friends who were going to separate, systemic
| racism in algorithm that my team implemented, global warming),
| how certain I am is far less important than whether I can do
| something about it.
| nonrandomstring wrote:
| Good point. But there are Knowledge Hazards that stand alone.
| Such as traumatic images you cannot unsee. A lot of people who
| work in digital forensics would love a zero knowledge proof
| that a folder is full of CP without having to look at it.
| That's pretty much the idea of the CSAM algorithm Apple wanted
| to push, which makes it a pretty great idea minus the digitally
| rapey _forcing it on people without their consent_ bit.
|
| > "Only 1% of participants consistently wanted to know"
|
| Wow! I sometimes feel "better not to know" but for the most-
| part I am scientific/rationalist and will take all the intel I
| can get even if it may be challenging.
|
| There's one exception: I often deliberately don't google people
| I am going to meet. I want the relationship to evolve
| organically. If it's an interview I might check a bit on their
| professional background, and the orgs they've worked with, but
| even given the opportunity to see a much deeper dox I'll pass
| on it. I feel it's degrading. Also that it may give me a false
| impression that excludes opportunities. I would only break that
| "polite ignorance" if I needed to assess the risk of someone or
| suspected a problem.
| bombcar wrote:
| That last part is quite important; we've lost the ability to
| lose things to time, and it can be brought back up quite
| easily.
|
| Part of it has been loss in trust of the people in society
| setup as gatekeepers, but the "cure" of everyone doing it
| themselves may be worse than the disease.
| nonrandomstring wrote:
| That theme, of whether the age of 'benevolent elites' has
| given way to a hyper-liberal vigilantism (and whether
| that's worse) is explored quite nicely by Adam Curtis in
| some of his more recent films.
| bertil wrote:
| In the case of CSAM, I think you are conflating not wanting
| to see, which I appreciate, and wanting, needing really, to
| know to make decision.
|
| Knowing gives agency, the ability ot fight a crime in that
| case. People who are exposed to it suffer less from being
| exposed to it and more from the inability to see the flow
| stop.
| nonrandomstring wrote:
| Yes I agree. We've come full circle back to Cassandra. The
| thing with cybersecurity that infuriates me with
| frustration is telling people the things they don't want to
| know yet knowing I am powerless to stop them harming
| themselves and others with stubbornly bad choices. I'm sure
| healthcare professionals get the same. It's why I wrote in
| Digital Vegan quite a lot about drug addiction and
| technology.
| yccs27 wrote:
| I see two distinct motivations for not wanting to know:
|
| - You have no agency, so the information would just be
| depressing without enabling you to do something about it.
|
| - You have agency, and indeed you'd have to do something if you
| knew (for moral, legal or general responsibility reasons) - but
| you don't _want_ to do anything.
| bombcar wrote:
| The second is common, especially when dealing with a
| bureaucracy that isn't fully aligned with what should be
| done. As long as you maintain plausible deniability, things
| continue to work.
|
| Hence things like "work to rule"
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Work-to-rule
| photochemsyn wrote:
| Agency can be a burden: knowing about something and also
| knowing that you can do something about it, but that there is a
| cost to doing something about it, can expose serious
| deficiencies in human beings (gross cowardice in particular).
|
| Churches with serial molesters as priests are a rather grim
| example: apparently quite a few people knew what was going on
| in many (most?) of these cases, but the cost of taking action
| was viewed as being too detrimental to the image of the church,
| so, they let it continue. This kind of behavior was also seen
| with those FBI agents and internal executives who were informed
| about the USA Gymnast's serial child predator by some of the
| victims (the FBI is now facing a $1 billion lawsuit for
| negligence, a case worth watching):
|
| https://finance.yahoo.com/news/wait-happened-larry-nassar-co...
|
| This is why higher-ups in organizations often don't want to get
| memos from middle managers about problems lower down, because
| then they lose the 'plausible deniability' defense when it
| comes to a criminal prosecution or a civil court case.
| narag wrote:
| One more motive, archivable under "plot twist" meme: what seems
| like relevant information is actually a lie, amplified by the
| echo chamber.
|
| Maybe you can spot some buzzword that has been discussed in HN
| for years and later diluted into irrelevance. Sometimes the next
| big thing, sometimes the moral panic, sometimes the impending
| doom. The bigger the sense of urgency, the more suspect.
| kelseyfrog wrote:
| The paper mentions Kruglanski & Webster[1] which is good, but
| somehow misses their 1994 paper "Individual differences in need
| for cognitive closure."[2] The latter develops the Need For
| Closure Scale(NFCS) which is available online[3]. The NFCS
| exemplifies some of the aspects of the needs for cognitive
| closure.
|
| > 21(d) In most social conflicts, I can easily see which side is
| right and which is wrong.
|
| > 30(d) I dislike it when a person's statement could mean many
| different things.
|
| > 32(a) I find that establishing a consistent routine enables me
| to enjoy life more.
|
| I'd even go so far to say that by not assessing the paper's
| subjects using NFCS the authors made a massive oversight.
|
| If the subject interests you, I recommend reading the sources.
| They aren't too hard to follow, but if you're someone who is
| unfamiliar with the limitations of developing a psychological
| assessment instrument, you might have to put aside your need for
| cognitive closure for a bit while reading them.
|
| 1. Kruglanski, A. W., & Webster, D. M. (1996). Motivated closing
| of the mind: "Seizing" and "freezing." Psychological Review, 103,
| 263-283. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/0033-295X.103.2.263
|
| 2. Webster, D. M., & Kruglanski, A. W. (1994). Individual
| differences in need for cognitive closure. Journal of Personality
| and Social Psychology, 67(6), 1049-1062.
|
| 3.
| https://www.kruglanskiarie.com/_files/ugd/1b977d_8ef6f17f4f8...
| jimsmart wrote:
| > but somehow misses their 1994 paper
|
| Link to PDF of article for [2]
|
| -- Rather ironically, you seem to have missed it, and I needed
| the closure!
|
| http://www.communicationcache.com/uploads/1/0/8/8/10887248/i...
| ifokiedoke wrote:
| An interesting consideration here that I don't see mentioned in
| the comments is the difference between the destination and the
| _journey_.
|
| The paper asks, "would you want to know during the wedding
| ceremony whether your marriage is going to end in divorce?" There
| are 4 reasons offered for not wanting to know ("to avoid the
| negative emotions, to maintain the positive emotions of surprise,
| to gain a strategic advantage, to implement fairness") but my
| reason would be this: there is a difference between knowing the
| outcome, and knowing _why_. And there is a difference between
| being able to express _why_, and truly feeling it and accepting
| it. And I don't think there is any way to get there other than
| through living it.
|
| The human mind and our capacity to learn/grow is incredible, but
| we only learn and accept things when we are ready to. Sometimes
| you learn a little too late (e.g. after your divorce) what it
| means to be a present partner, but that doesn't mean you didn't
| learn it as _soon as you could_. And no knowing the future can
| change that. I mean, how many of us have been told over and over
| that we should be grateful for something (e.g. our parents, our
| partners, our jobs) but only truly learned the lesson once we
| lost it?
|
| Sometimes I think we have too myopic a view of what "knowing"
| really means.
| nobody0 wrote:
| ignorance is a bliss
| gw67 wrote:
| This is very relevant during this large crypto correction.
|
| Nobody wants to know that BTC will reach $3,000 within 1-2 years.
| locallost wrote:
| Sorry for not reading past the first page, so maybe their
| conclusion is the same, but: in the case of the HIV test, it's
| pretty clear that people avoid it because the mere thought forces
| you to confront the possibility, and that is tough. At least that
| was my experience, even though I rationally knew that it was
| better to know, boy was it tempting to not pick up the result.
|
| Another interesting tangent on it is that I got my results the
| same day, but there are places where they make you wait for a
| week, just so you think about it.
| ksd482 wrote:
| That's a very good point. I also went through this dilemma a
| few years ago and it was very difficult for me.
|
| Given my personality, I always strive to do what's right
| regardless of how difficult or uncomfortable it is. I can say I
| have ALWAYS succeeded in doing that. But a few years ago when I
| was in a situation where I needed to get an HIV test, I was
| very scared and nervous. I was sweating every now and then
| thinking about it. I couldn't focus on work and I couldn't have
| any fun. The only thing that helped me a little bit was to
| rationally predict my outcome based on statistics and past
| behavior.
|
| But all in all, I trusted in the process and got myself to go
| through with it step by step.
| CodeBeater wrote:
| This is so prevalent all around the world, that there's even a
| saying in my native Brazil: "You're only sick if you get
| tested"
| formerkrogemp wrote:
| I wonder how well that expression was taken in the context of
| COVID.
| neosystem wrote:
| Timely article -- I can't help but to relate it to my
| investing/stock account lol. I'm mostly invested in big tech and
| not so much growth -- so things probably aren't so bad -- still,
| I haven't checked that account in a couple months. I have it set
| up to make recurring purchases in things like Apple, so I'm just
| waiting it out and hoping that the old adage "time in the market
| beats timing the market" holds true.
| photochemsyn wrote:
| Interesting discussion here:
|
| https://www.mpg.de/16834860/interview-deliberate-ignorance
|
| For example:
|
| > "We distinguish between at least six functions of deliberate
| ignorance. One important function is regulating emotions. Not
| knowing certain facts can help us avoid negative emotions. For
| example, some people consciously make the decision not to view
| their "Stasi" (State Security Service of the GDR) files because
| they fear they might contain information that would make them
| extremely upset or sad. Such as a friend or a relative may have
| collaborated with the Stasi. Another function is to preserve
| suspense and surprise: When we read a detective story, we
| typically do not want to know in advance how the story ends."
|
| They also discuss how blind auditions for orchestras result in a
| much broader group of people being hired as musicians (basically
| it's anti-discriminatory wrt non-relevant factors), and also, the
| Twitter effect:
|
| > "In 2018, an investigation found that false information spreads
| more quickly and more widely on Twitter than genuine facts.
| Scientists suspect that the reason for this is that false
| information appeals to our emotions and often surprises us and
| defies our expectations. And initially, everything that's
| contrary to our expectations is interesting to us. We need to
| know this! That's where deliberate ignorance can help us to build
| up a cognitive defence to protect us against being inundated with
| false information."
| endominus wrote:
| The blind auditions may be a bad example - or at least, may not
| have helped get more women hired into orchestras. The original
| study that posited that blind auditions greatly help women does
| not show strong data to support its claims and what data it
| does show either contradicts the claim (when confounded) or has
| no significant result and large error values (when
| unconfounded). See
| https://jsmp.dk/posts/2019-05-12-blindauditions/ for more
| details.
|
| There are also a lot of... let's call them self-styled anti-
| racists who want to end blind auditions because they don't
| result in enough minority hires (see [0], [1], [2]) which is an
| interesting way to define discrimination, I suppose.
|
| [0]: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/16/arts/music/blind-
| audition...
|
| [1]: https://www.amren.com/news/2020/07/to-make-orchestras-
| more-d...
|
| [2]: https://www.quora.com/Considering-that-blind-auditions-
| incre...
| amitmina wrote:
| Deliberate ignorance is a way to optimize for out emotions.
| Most of us are still rooted in our limbic brain no matter how
| rational we think we are.
| amitmina wrote:
| In a paper called "Cassandra;s regret - a paper in the journal of
| psychology review" written by Gerd Gigerrenzer he mentions the
| prevalence of People ignoring mostly to maintain a potential
| upside due to surprise and also the negative emotions associated
| with knowing something they didn't want to know. People prefer to
| be in a state of active ignorance even when information is freely
| available. 85-95% of people don't want to know about potential
| upcoming negative events. Deliberate ignorance to maintain
| positive emotions is more prevalent than earlier expected.
| ahmadmijot wrote:
| It's the same paper in the title
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