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Honestly, yes. What if there was a fire? I understand that you intend that to read as "do you think people should be allowed to yell 'fire!' in a crowded room
by dafoex 6y ago
Honestly, yes. What if there was a fire?
I understand that you intend that to read as "do you think people should be allowed to yell 'fire!' in a crowded room in which there is no fire", but for every false positive punished you create a chance for a false negative to arise from people to afraid to speak up for fear of getting it wrong.
- anigbrowl 6y agoI'd like to see some evidence for that assertion.
- dafoex 6y agoMy evidence is mainly from an infosec perspective: you aren't going to get your front desk to report suspicious activity if they have no incentive, or if they feel like they are fobbed off every time they try to report a potential issue. Every report of a problem, no matter how big or small, should at least be taken seriously enough to record the report and investigate its credibility - otherwise you'll set up a culture of issues going unreported because they get poo-pooed when they are reported. I'll see if I can find the talk where this concept was first put in such plain words to me, but I believe it was a Defcon talk called "Steal Everything, Kill Everyone, Cause Total Financial Ruin".
- anigbrowl 6y agoThat's not evidence, that's a hypothesis. Do you have evidence that fact-based reporting standards produces more false negatives than positives?