"Their focus becomes to play politics, cover themselves by issuing vaguely phrased internal memoranda **that warn against risk-taking activities yet stop short of completely condemning it, lest they lose their job**. Like a doctor torn between the two types of errors, the false positive (telling the patient he has cancer when in fact he does not) and the false negative (telling the patient he is healthy when in fact he has cancer), they need to balance their existence with the fact that they inherently need some margin of error in their business." --- **Tags** -- [[quotes]], [[psycho-logic]], [[fooled-by-randomness]], [[defensive-decision-making]] **Source** -- [[202410121132 - B - Fooled by Randomness]]