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I just answered a phone survey about asbestos, whether/how much companies care about worker and customer safety, and related things. There were a lot of questions that I wasn't really thrilled with the phrasing of, but only three I refused to answer: two were factual epidemiological questions to do with incidence of cancer and other illness due to asbestos, and the third was about how often cancer is related to genetic predisposition. I told the survey-taker that those weren't opinion questions, and I didn't know the answers. I did, however, offer best guesses on things like how often companies conceal health risks in their products.
There was also one genuinely interesting question: When making a decision, are you more concerned with making the right decision or avoiding a bad decision? I told her "avoiding a bad decision," but I'm not sure. Clearly, as with a lot of these generalizations, it depends on the kind of decision and the possible outcomes.
There was also one genuinely interesting question: When making a decision, are you more concerned with making the right decision or avoiding a bad decision? I told her "avoiding a bad decision," but I'm not sure. Clearly, as with a lot of these generalizations, it depends on the kind of decision and the possible outcomes.