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102 sats \ 0 replies \ @Scroogey 6h \ on: Cigarette filters and other pointless safetyism mostly_harmless
It's not just that some safety measures are counterproductive.
It seems that people actually prefer counterproductive measures over effective ones, because they (the people) don't focus on worst-case scenarios and underestimate their probability.
That explains why helmets (improve only worst-case) are effective, while ABS (anti-lock braking systems) are counterproductive (lead to risk compensation, aka "forgetting to be afraid").
On Safety, Protection, and Underweighting of Rare Events by D. Cohen & I. Erev (2018)