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General Climbing Discussion

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Psychology of Risk Assessment 26-Nov-2012 At 10:39:36 AM egosan
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On 26/11/2012 IdratherbeclimbingM9 wrote:
>'Non-event feedback loop' = the crag that you climb the most, the slope
>that you ski the most, the mountain that you've been up the most times...these
>are the most dangerous places that you will ever go.

>
>Hmm. Not to detract from the efficacy of the article, but isn't that called
>complacency?
>
>

complacency (plural complacencies)
1. A feeling of contented self-satisfaction, especially when unaware of upcoming trouble.  [quotations ▲]
1925, F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, Chapter I
There was something pathetic in his concentration as if his complacency, more acute than of old, was not enough to him any more. When, almost immediately, the telephone rang inside and the butler left the porch Daisy seized upon the momentary interruption and leaned toward me.
2. An instance of self-satisfaction

I see what you are getting at, M9, however complacency is too often used as a cause for an accident. "He got squished by the steamroller because he became complacent." The author is talking about why and how we become "complacent." Regardless complacency is a poor word for describing a logical fallacy that we all seem prone to make because of way our brains are wired.

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