If someone is building a ship, and someone criticizes the ship for being unsafe, but this criticism is suppressed, that would result in optimism bias at a social scale, since it leads people to falsely believe the ship is safer than it actually is.
This seems to assume that absent suppression of criticism, people’s perceptions would be accurate.
My view is that people make better judgments with more information, generally (but not literally always), but not that they always make accurate judgments when they have more information. Suppressing criticism but not praise, in particular, is a move to intentionally miscalibrate/deceive the audience.
This seems to assume that absent suppression of criticism, people’s perceptions would be accurate.
My view is that people make better judgments with more information, generally (but not literally always), but not that they always make accurate judgments when they have more information. Suppressing criticism but not praise, in particular, is a move to intentionally miscalibrate/deceive the audience.