We know that moment when Donald Rumsfeld, the US Secretary of State, declared in 12 Feb 2002, that we have: ‘known knowns, unknown knowns, known unknowns and unknown unknowns’ (https://youtu.be/GiPe1OiKQuk?si=lrtA5UwvImfvdI1i ). This was in response to a journalists question about why the USA … [Read more...] about Agnotology, What We Don’t Want to Know in Safety
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The UnKnown Unknowns of Due Diligence
The UnKnown Unknowns of Due Diligence One of the challenges in understanding Due Diligence for safety people is clouded by the Dunning-Kruger Effect . Put simply, Dunning-Kruger explains a cognitive bias that all humans have in not seeing their own blind spots, particularly in relation to … [Read more...] about The UnKnown Unknowns of Due Diligence