If you want to increase the importance of a problem, it seems sensible to explain how common it is. Many people are at risk of Alzheimer’s disease. Many women take a gene that makes them prone to breast cancer.
A problem that affects a lot of people is more important than what is not, okay?
Except how we humans act on information A new research dissertation. Telling people that a problem is currently forcing them to decide that it is less serious. People believe that the world is primarily safe and these problems are resolved, so if something is common, they guess how bad it can be?
Researchers wrote, “People think that from poverty to drunk driving – there are serious problems.
It is obviously an academic bias. For example, cancer, diabetes and heart disease are common and they are also extremely harmful. Some serious problems remain serious because they are complicated. Life is hard, but we don’t like to think like that.
The thesis, which was published online in October by the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, is from North Western University’s Kelog School of Management Assistant Professor Lauren Escrease Winclar. A prediction candidate in Cornell, Louisa Teno Trankoso Perez; And Aletsbach, a professor at the Chicago Booth School of Business University.
The authors are called “big problem paradox”, which seems to be how people think about common things. Normal, which is really a measure of frequency, is a kind of interpretation.
He wrote, “More than the ordinary washing machine setting.” Remembering the spread of a problem is a powerful psychological force. “
The authors conducted 15 studies to investigate various aspects of the contradiction of the major problem. In one, for example, he asked a group of people in Chicago to ask numerous questions, including whether a fictitious 2 -year -old man in Chicago is named JL, a measles, mums or rubella. The vaccine has not been allowed and they will get sick and need to be hospitalized. Their initial loss estimates decreased by 20 % when they were told that “there are thousands of children in Chicago who have not been allowed to vaccinate against measles, mamps or rubella.”
Researchers got similar results when they informed the participants how common it is for people to get fixed medicines, get out of college, stop suicide ideas and similar work.
People gave different answers when they were asked to think about the dangerous situations, where they did not think that ordinary problems would be resolved. He believed that deprivation of sleep was a major problem when the Ukrainian soldier caught was added more than that when he included a medical resident in a hospital (though it was just as deprived). –
I am writing about this article, though it is more about psychology than economics, because it has the implications of how society sets priorities and how people behave. Drinking drunk is not safe because other people are doing it.
The first psychology literature has another tension that shows that people prefer to solve the problems that affect the major proportion of the population. It seems that the results in this article will contradict, but the authors say this is not. I asked Fish Beach to explain.
Earlier literature applies to conditions where a money or effort is available to solve a problem. Fish Beach said that when this is the case, people are pursuing the logic of implementing the most explosive issue for the deer.
Fish Beach said the new dissertation applies to the circumstances where people are thinking about helping a person and making a decision on which person will be. In these cases, they will be more likely to help a person suffering from a rare problem, assuming that it is more common.
Journalists have been pursued for years. This is why articles about people in distress start with people, not numbers. One of the jokes in journalism is that there is a collection of stories. As a reader, I put myself back on the story of a sympathetic and disgusting offender.
Fish Beach said that people who are trying to highlight a threat – say, in the announcement of public service – refrain from mentioning how common the threat is. He said that they should focus on someone rather than collectively. That’s fine, though, talking about the number of people that faced the result – such as illness, injury, or death – because at the moment, we are no longer guessing the risk. We are reviewing the results.
No one won’t say, “How bad can it really be?” If the topic is dead.
Somewhere else: a struggle to maintain light
The North American Electric Vishwasiti Corporation, “Well, more than half of the continent’s shares are high or higher in the next five to 10 years.” Said In releasing it last month 2024 long -term reliability diagnosis. The organization said that hungry data centers “are” most contributing to the explosive demand. ” It added, “Electricity and other major commercial and industrial loads in various sectors, such as manufacturing facilities and hydrogen fuel plants, are in fact predicting more demand.”
The quote of the day
“The ownership has been separated from control. And this separation has removed many checks that first used to walk to prevent misuse of wealth and power.
– Disagreements in Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandes, Legate vs. Lee (1933Jes
