Scientific Definition
Avoiding information that might be unpleasant.
Plain-English Definition
Avoiding information that might be unpleasant.
Feynman Explanation
If we don't pull the report, the number isn't real yet.
Core Principle
Avoiding information that might be unpleasant.
Mechanisms
Avoiding information that might be unpleasant.
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Inputs (Triggers)
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Outputs (Behaviors)
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Behavioral Signature
If we don't pull the report, the number isn't real yet.
Examples
- Dashboards quietly archived after they start showing the wrong direction.
- Bad news routes around the people who could fix it.
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Famous Experiments
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Design Principles
- Pre-commit to review cadences; make ignoring dashboards harder than reading them.
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.
- Pre-commit to review cadences; make ignoring dashboards harder than reading them.
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Interactive Mini Network
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Knowledge Graph Neighbors
Auto-linked to the rest of the Human Behavior Taxonomy by family, domain, dimension, and shared keywords.
Low ability paired with high confidence.
Confidence routinely outruns calibration.
We assume others notice us more than they do.
We see bias in others more easily than in ourselves.
Cold-state decisions don't survive hot-state moments.
Believing we influence outcomes that are largely random.
Confidence in predictions outruns their actual accuracy.
Most of us think we're above average. Statistically, we can't be.
We assume our current state will persist into the future.
Overestimating our ability to control future impulses.
Wins are ours; losses are circumstantial.
Contradictory evidence sometimes deepens the original belief.