>These situations reveal the true preference toward status over accuracy: People would rather make an effort to preserve their status than to admit having made

>These situations reveal the true preference toward status over accuracy: People would rather make an effort to preserve their status than to admit having made a mistake. This is especially bad if it happens internally, with peoples self image. I used to recommend to people to just get to grip with how big of a moron they are but this lead to all sort of other problems. Framing it as managing expectations about ones competence for specific situations and moments and accounting for cognitive bias in the process seems to be much more palpable. With the inability of just taking the moron advice being a good example for what other difficulties you need to compensate for outside competence alone.