Scientific Definition
Believing people get what they deserve.
Plain-English Definition
Believing people get what they deserve.
Feynman Explanation
The market is right when it agrees with us and broken when it doesn't.
Core Principle
Believing people get what they deserve.
Mechanisms
Believing people get what they deserve.
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Inputs (Triggers)
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Outputs (Behaviors)
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Behavioral Signature
The market is right when it agrees with us and broken when it doesn't.
Examples
- Layoff justifications that assume those let go must have deserved it.
- Failure attribution that protects survivors from learning.
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Famous Experiments
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Design Principles
- Force structural analysis before character analysis.
Measurement Approaches
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Evidence
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The Perverse Incentive Lens™
How this behavior is exploited — and how to redesign around it.
- Force structural analysis before character analysis.
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Knowledge Graph Neighbors
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A story repeats until it becomes obviously true.
Contradictory evidence sometimes deepens the original belief.
Beliefs survive the evidence that should have killed them.
We hunt for evidence that we were right all along.
Updating beliefs too slowly when new evidence arrives.
Assuming new technology will be adopted faster and more usefully than it will.
Reflexively rejecting evidence that contradicts established norms.
Studying winners while ignoring identical losers.
We defend existing systems even when they harm us.
Evaluating an argument's logic based on whether you agree with the conclusion.
We see bias in others more easily than in ourselves.
Low ability paired with high confidence.