Indiscriminate budget-cutting distorts rational appraisal of information-service value
Evidence
The crucial questions about information services are likely to be accuracy and cost. Nothing is more common, however, than the paralysis of normal human capacity to make a sensible appraisal of benefits in relation to cost which is induced by an undiscriminating yen for reducing governmental expenditures. To economize on some kinds of public information is like economizing on eyesight by wearing dark glasses with blinders. — Henry M. Hart, Jr. and Albert M. Sacks, The Legal Process, 866
Categorization
- APHORISMS: The dark-glasses analogy is a compact piece of advice: across-the-board public-information cuts cripple informed decision-making.
- XREF: connects to: Weber’s formal rationality blinds judgement to the worth of means