Here’s one possible way to distinguish the two: Under the optimizer’s curse + judgement stickiness scenario retrospective evaluation should usually take a step towards the truth, though it could be a very small one if judgements are very sticky! Under motivated reasoning, retrospective evaluation should take a step towards the “desired truth” (or some combination of truth an desired truth, if the organisation wants both).
Here’s one possible way to distinguish the two: Under the optimizer’s curse + judgement stickiness scenario retrospective evaluation should usually take a step towards the truth, though it could be a very small one if judgements are very sticky! Under motivated reasoning, retrospective evaluation should take a step towards the “desired truth” (or some combination of truth an desired truth, if the organisation wants both).