#normalcybias — Public Fediverse posts
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Today's cognitive bias of the day is Normalcy Bias.
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Normalcy bias shows up in those moments when our brains try to downplay danger — even when the signs are right in front of us.
“That was just fireworks.”
“It won’t happen here.”
“That noise was nothing.”James Dunleavy, an ex-cop and firearms expert explained this so clearly from his school safety and law enforcement experience, and it’s such an important reminder. Those few seconds of hesitation can matter more than we realize.
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CW: normalcy bias / Carole Cadwalladr
"We are trapped in what epidemiologist Adam Kucharski correctly identifies as “status quo or normalcy bias”. There is an inability to process, accept and confront the dangerous new reality we are in and to focus on the big picture and the pivot of history that’s occurred in the last two weeks."
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""I'm not afraid at all," says one Santorini resident, who decided to stay put on the volcanic island despite thousands of her neighbours fleeing amid the ongoing earthquakes.
Chantal Metakides insists that she would not be joining her compatriots. "For 500 years, this house has lived through earthquakes and volcanic eruptions and it's still standing," she told AFP news agency, adding, "there's no reason why this should change"."
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""I'm not afraid at all," says one Santorini resident, who decided to stay put on the volcanic island despite thousands of her neighbours fleeing amid the ongoing earthquakes.
Chantal Metakides insists that she would not be joining her compatriots. "For 500 years, this house has lived through earthquakes and volcanic eruptions and it's still standing," she told AFP news agency, adding, "there's no reason why this should change"."
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""I'm not afraid at all," says one Santorini resident, who decided to stay put on the volcanic island despite thousands of her neighbours fleeing amid the ongoing earthquakes.
Chantal Metakides insists that she would not be joining her compatriots. "For 500 years, this house has lived through earthquakes and volcanic eruptions and it's still standing," she told AFP news agency, adding, "there's no reason why this should change"."
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""I'm not afraid at all," says one Santorini resident, who decided to stay put on the volcanic island despite thousands of her neighbours fleeing amid the ongoing earthquakes.
Chantal Metakides insists that she would not be joining her compatriots. "For 500 years, this house has lived through earthquakes and volcanic eruptions and it's still standing," she told AFP news agency, adding, "there's no reason why this should change"."
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""I'm not afraid at all," says one Santorini resident, who decided to stay put on the volcanic island despite thousands of her neighbours fleeing amid the ongoing earthquakes.
Chantal Metakides insists that she would not be joining her compatriots. "For 500 years, this house has lived through earthquakes and volcanic eruptions and it's still standing," she told AFP news agency, adding, "there's no reason why this should change"."
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"When I responded to emergencies as an EMT, I would find myself walking through the OODA Loop several times within a few minutes, continually observing the emergency scene, orienting myself within it, deciding what I need to do next, and then acting on that information… and then going back to step one. This prevented me from falling into analysis paralysis or apathy to new information, and it kept me from developing tunnel vision and failing to notice a changing or dynamic situation."
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"Decide: Based on your mental picture and your available options to act on that picture or problem, determine a course of action.
Act: Execute that action. And then once you’ve acted, go back to “Observe” to determine the impact of that action, and adjust your course of action as necessary. Repeat continually through the emergency."9/x
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"The four phases of the Loop are:
Observe: With the five human senses, survey the environment and gather information.
Orient: With the data one has at hand, develop the mental picture of the situation. Convert that data to information. Remain open to deconstructing pre-existing mental pictures of the situation, as the reality of the situation may have changed. Know that some of the information will be false, contradictory, and missing."8/x
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"During the Korean War, US Air Force Colonel John Boyd realized that the speed at which modern jet air combat was occurring really shortened the time a pilot could use to make decisions. Colonel Boyd wound up creating a mnemonic known as the “OODA Loop.” While created in the context of air combat, the OODA Loop has been adapted for use in business, academia … and I think it has a role in our personal and family responses to an imminent pandemic situation."
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@densaer @densaer.bsky.social
"How do we push through the “fog of war” and make decisions in time critical environments? One of the tricks I’ve used over several decades to shift from my “engineer” brain to my “emergency responder” brain came out of the US Air Force back during the Korean war. It’s called the “OODA Loop”"6/x
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"As an emergency responder, you’re expected to take decisive action in response to a dynamic situation with imperfect information and limited resources. You have a duty to do that, so you can't freeze. You may have never been an emergency responder in your life, but it's helpful to start thinking like one now."
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"Binary, linear thinking (the kind that makes an engineer a good engineer) is less well suited for dynamic, ambiguous situations. You don’t have perfect information, you don’t necessarily have time to wait to develop that perfect understanding, and the situation keeps changing anyway.
It’s a perfect recipe for analysis paralysis. “You froze,” Okaye told Black Panther after the raid…
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Does anyone have a really good read on the effects of the psychological phenomenon known as normalcy bias and how it might be driving (close behind the profit motive, obviously) our collective inaction in the face of climate change?
I know I'm asking for something really specific, but my searching online has not yielded anything solid yet.
(Textes en français sont bien évidemment toujours les bienvenus!)
#Psychology #NormalcyBias #climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCatastrophe #OverrelianceOnAuthority
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Normalcy Bias: the tendency of human beings to underestimate the likelihood of a disaster, even if it likely will affect them, and pretend everything is normal. #normalcybias
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@lidsville
Such a good, short piece on #NormalcyBias. It made me think about #Grenfell, where so many died because they were told to stay in their flats and they did.As part of “docile mode” is doing what are you told, the content of authoritative messaging is key: During #Covid most people obeyed lockdown rules. We don’t have any messaging or instructions along those lines about #ClimateCrisis . Gov message is #BusinessAsUsual. No wonder majority don’t take it seriously.
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@Symposiarchin meine interpretation: ca. 70% der bevölkerung sind immer für die simulation einer bekannten normalität (#normalcybias). zur gemeinschaftlichen simulation einer realität ohne krisen werden massive verwerfungen in kauf genommen. allerdings scheint in ein teil der bevölkerung neurobiologisch nicht in der lage, sich mit krisen konstruktiv auseinanderzusetzen. die folge ist tatsächlich eine letzlich darwinistische auslese die ungeimpft jeden und geimpft noch viele trifft.
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On Normalcy Bias by @jessicawildfire
"A disturbingly large portion of the public seems totally unmoved by stories of children dying in hospitals.
Many of us have struggled to understand how tens of millions of decent people could possibly act like this. Normalcy bias explains everything. Like it or not, they’re doing what their brains have evolved to do."
https://jessicawildfire.substack.com/p/its-not-cool-to-overreact-how-normalcy
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We think people panic during a crisis.
Actually, most do the opposite.
https://jessicawildfire.substack.com/p/its-not-cool-to-overreact-how-normalcy
In 1977, two planes collided above a runway. A handful of passengers climbed out of the ruptured hull. Everyone else burned alive. It wasn’t because they were injured. They were all wide awake. They just couldn’t get moving.They didn’t want to panic.
#Panic #Climate #Emergency #Response #NormalcyBias #Normal #Crisis #Covid
𝐍𝐎! 𝐄𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐢𝐬 𝐍𝐎𝐓 𝐟𝐢𝐧𝐞!
Photo by Mike Newbry https://unsplash.com/@mikenewbry
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Stay cool during a disaster. A docile crowd is easier to control.
https://jessicawildfire.substack.com/p/its-not-cool-to-overreact-how-normalcy