Tim Harford o prekletstvu pretiravanja: Ko gre dobro, so vsi in vse super, ko gredo stvari navzdol, je vse narobe. Umetnost se je zaustaviti in analizirati celoto, identificirati dobre stvari, ki so privedle k uspehu, in šibke točke, ki jih je treba izboljšati. “Misija skoraj nemogoče” pa se je zbrati v času, ko stvari gredo po klancu navzdol, in identificirati tako minuse kot pluse. Pomembno je že zavedanje te nagnjenosti k pretiravanju v obe smeri.
If you have colleagues, what do you think of them? Are they smart? Competent? Motivated? Open to new ideas? Good communicators? Do they work well as a team? The answer may not depend on what you think. And that fact suggests a reason why the modern world now seems so poisonously polarised.
In the 1970s, the psychologist Barry Staw gave a collaborative task to groups of strangers, inviting them to analyse some corporate data and make predictions about the company’s future earnings and sales. When the task was complete, he told each participant how well their group’s forecasts had worked out. Then he asked these individuals to evaluate the group they’d been working with.



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