@zeynep I think you’ve far overstated my position in your recap. My points aren’t to do with the veracity of recommendations, they’re to do with the amount of assuredness we get comfortable with in a highly evolving evidence landscape.
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Replying to @DrJaimeAnne @samhorwich and
For example? What would you avoid?
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Replying to @zeynep @samhorwich and
1) assuming exactly what public risk response and info processing looks like right now 2) comms w/ certainty around rts of transmission—>epi dynamics—>disease severity 3) wildly vacillating btwn eviscerating govt. public health and begging for trust in govt. regulated vax.
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Replying to @DrJaimeAnne @samhorwich and
Okay. I'm going to disagree on 1 and 3. I think we have a lot of evidence. On 3, I believe taking them to task is the best way to improve trust, because whatever we don't push to fix will get weaponized by people whose goal is merely to create mistrust, not fix things.
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Replying to @zeynep @DrJaimeAnne and
In other words, mistrust breeds where there is failure, and circling the wagons doesn't help because fixing failure is the actual path to trust. On 2, I'm with you. I don't think there's any need to claim certainty. Totally possible to communicate nuance and unknown.
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Replying to @zeynep @samhorwich and
@zeynep I hear you. The balance between accountability, trust, and reliance is the world I live in here at Federal Academia.
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Replying to @DrJaimeAnne @samhorwich and
Indeed. It's a problem with many institutions; they need to be defended/fixed, but also the failures recognized. Journalism is another example. Very strong tendency to want to circle the wagons (because of all the terrible attacks!) but also makes it harder to strengthen.
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Replying to @zeynep @samhorwich and
Absolutely. And I wonder often about how to navigate and optimize the balance of accountability and trust in shifting crisis landscapes. Wish there were a CBA that could handle it. Coffee break over for me, back at it. Lovely to talk with you again as ever! Speak soon.
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I agree wholeheartedly with both of you that key to building trust is to be honest and accountable about where these institutions have failed, as well as to be upfront about what is known with a high degree of certainty and what is still research in progress.
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Replying to @angie_rasmussen @DrJaimeAnne and
Indeed. I think too much (unwarranted certainty) decreases trust. Better to say, this is the preponderance of evidence as best we see it, here's usable intuition about it, and then have some guidelines that aren't as binary as some we have now.
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(I don't like blanket mask mandates for outdoors, for example, I think better to say "when can't maintain distance" for outdoors but seems sensible to have blanket mandates for indoors where risk is clearly higher).
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