It seems like there’s this expectation of public figures to always have acted in a way that is correct given the information we have now—basically hindsight bias again.
One of the many wildly charismatic people you hang out with later turns out to be No Good? Well of course you shouldn’t have associated with them. One of the many rumours you might have heard turns out to be true and a big deal? Off course you should have acted on it.
I don’t think this is very fair or useful. I guess we might worry that the rest of the world will think like that but I don’t see why we should.
It seems like there’s this expectation of public figures to always have acted in a way that is correct given the information we have now—basically hindsight bias again.
One of the many wildly charismatic people you hang out with later turns out to be No Good? Well of course you shouldn’t have associated with them. One of the many rumours you might have heard turns out to be true and a big deal? Off course you should have acted on it.
I don’t think this is very fair or useful. I guess we might worry that the rest of the world will think like that but I don’t see why we should.