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I don't think you've actually understood. As we can see from the title, what matters is not the actual stats, but what people perceive. So if the system works
by bloaf 5y ago
I don't think you've actually understood.
As we can see from the title, what matters is not the actual stats, but what people perceive. So if the system works silently and fails loudly, people are going to think it is more broken than it actually is.
That fact doesn't somehow make the author wrong. People don't check the rigorous studies of corruption to decide whether or not they should feel like a sucker.
- Symmetry 5y agoThere are also cases where we can widely observe people being punished or having other problems from some behavior but not the behavior itself. Bribery or drug use are two well studied examples. When you have a public awareness campaign that emphasizes how large the problem is people think "Gosh, I hardly ever see any one getting arrested for bribes or going to the hospital for using drugs, it must actually be safe if everyone is doing it" and the public awareness campaign backfires.