Thank you Jindra, you made me remember something I'd forgotten-The Hawthorne Effect, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawthorne_effect where employees in factories changed their behavior when they thought they were being researched for how effectively they worked. I wonder, as there is a similar effect which actually has a name, when Ministers for War in rich countries look into small/weakly governed countries and the moment the ministers look they suddenly find terrorists-when previously there were actually none. The act of the minister looking creates the terror.....
Thanks for this post, Bearz
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Thank you Jindra, you made me remember something I'd forgotten-The Hawthorne Effect, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawthorne_effect where employees in factories changed their behavior when they thought they were being researched for how effectively they worked. I wonder, as there is a similar effect which actually has a name, when Ministers for War in rich countries look into small/weakly governed countries and the moment the ministers look they suddenly find terrorists-when previously there were actually none. The act of the minister looking creates the terror.....
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