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WE Run Bartertown?

WE Run Bartertown?

What if YOU had to create a version of 'Bartertown' where you live?

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Christopher Cook
Jan 15, 2024
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Normalcy bias:

“a psychological phenomenon in which people have a tendency to underestimate the likelihood or impact of a disaster or other crisis.”

On a day to day basis, the practical manifestation of normalcy bias is to believe that tomorrow will be like today—that things will stay “normal.” The opposite is called worse-case-scenario bias, whose meanin…

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