Can anyone think of examples where it’s in a person or group’s best interest to not know something, and so they diligently never go find out?
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One example is social hierarchy in groups: while the alpha and the punching bag might be knowable, it’s very important that the relative status of everyone in the middle be unknowable - if it were known, the lower half would feel like losers and the upper half would want to leave
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Relationships come to mind. So is not having estimates for tasks, especially creative work.
