> There's actually a ton of data to support the idea that making activities feel more dangerous makes them safer.
I'm not disputing the idea that people might respond to perceived safety by taking more risks or vice versa. It's almost a corollary to the efficient market hypothesis. However, that doesn't tell you anything about whether they will overcompensate or undercompensate in any given context.
And what I'm really objecting to is the idea that we should make people "feel" less safe by doing things that actually make them less safe if not for people [over]compensating for them. Because that's a very dangerous game if you're wrong and it's completely ignoring the possibility of solving the problem in other ways, which should on balance be more effective because you aren't running the wrong way with the ball.
I'm not disputing the idea that people might respond to perceived safety by taking more risks or vice versa. It's almost a corollary to the efficient market hypothesis. However, that doesn't tell you anything about whether they will overcompensate or undercompensate in any given context.
And what I'm really objecting to is the idea that we should make people "feel" less safe by doing things that actually make them less safe if not for people [over]compensating for them. Because that's a very dangerous game if you're wrong and it's completely ignoring the possibility of solving the problem in other ways, which should on balance be more effective because you aren't running the wrong way with the ball.