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Subject Normalcy bias on GLP? Normalcy bias on GLP = MEGADOOM
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Original Message The normalcy bias, or normality bias, refers to a mental state people enter when facing a disaster. It causes people to underestimate both the possibility of a disaster occurring and its possible effects. This often results in situations where people fail to adequately prepare for a disaster, and on a larger scale, the failure of governments to include the populace in its disaster preparations. The assumption that is made in the case of the normalcy bias is that since a disaster never has occurred then it never will occur. It also results in the inability of people to cope with a disaster once it occurs. People with a normalcy bias have difficulties reacting to something they have not experienced before. People also tend to interpret warnings in the most optimistic way possible, seizing on any ambiguities to infer a less serious situation.

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I thought the people on this site were focused on reality and that this would be the last place to find normalcy bias.

Normalcy bias on GLP = MEGADOOM

Why?

This site is the furthest out-there place in the world. If this site is experiencing normalcy bias in the face of the Fukushima disaster, the rest of the world is absolutely screwed.
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