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Interesting discussion here: https://www.mpg.de/16834860/interview-deliberate-ignorance https://www.mpg.de/16834860/interview-deliberate-ignorance For example
by photochemsyn 4y ago
Interesting discussion here:
https://www.mpg.de/16834860/interview-deliberate-ignorance 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."
- amitmina 4y agoDeliberate 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.
- endominus 4y agoThe 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/ 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-auditions-orchestras-race.html https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/16/arts/music/blind-audition... [1]: https://www.amren.com/news/2020/07/to-make-orchestras-more-diverse-end-blind-auditions/ https://www.amren.com/news/2020/07/to-make-orchestras-more-d... [2]: https://www.quora.com/Considering-that-blind-auditions-increased-the-number-of-women-in-orchestras-from-6-to-33-but-did-little-to-increase-racial-diversity-should-we-end-blind-auditions https://www.quora.com/Considering-that-blind-auditions-incre...