Who’d A Thunk It?
Jun 21st, 2006 at 12:16 pm by Susie
Who’d a thunk it, that Iraq would have a civil war? Who’d a think it, that the contractors would steal all the money without fixing things? Who’d a thunk it, that the country would descend into ethnic cleansing?
Uh, anyone with half a brain. So that leaves out BushCo:
Overconfident people are more likely to wage war but fare worse in the ensuing battles, a new study suggests. The research on how people approach a computer war game backs up a theory that “positive illusions†may contribute to costly conflicts.
“It supplies critically needed experimental support for the idea that positive attitude - which is generally a [beneficial] feature of human behaviour - may lead to overconfidence and [damaging] behaviour in the case of war,†comments Peter Turchin of the University of Connecticut, US.
