Vague, ever-reviewable assessment criteria generate functional anxiety in workers.

Evidence

But what it really means is that your status is never really validated — you are constantly subject to review. And it is a review of a bizarre and Kafkaesque type, because all the assessment criteria are characterised by a strategic vagueness, whereby it might appear possible to fulfil them, but in reality that fulfilment can be constantly deferred. The result is that teachers are in a constant state of anxiety — and anxiety is highly functional from the perspective of those who want to control us. — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1660

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Fear, stress, fatigue, and ambiguity erode officers’ bias-override capacity — Joseph Avery, Jim Sidanius, Joel Cooper, Gregory Davis, Amanda N., Bias in the Law: A Definitive Look at…, 409; Normalised uncertainty converts fear of objects into diffuse chronic anxiety. — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 1626; Bias risk rises under emotional, ambiguous, and low-effort decision conditions — Joseph Avery, Jim Sidanius, Joel Cooper, Gregory Davis, Amanda N., Bias in the Law: A Definitive Look at…, 1395 (+4 more)

Broader Connections

• Bias risk rises under emotional, ambiguous, and low-effort decision conditions #expands (0.85) — Joseph Avery, Jim Sidanius, Joel Cooper, Gregory Davis, Amanda N., Bias in the Law, 1395
• Apparent trustworthiness depends entirely on the context of the assessment #corroborates (0.85) — Russell Hardin, Trust and Trustworthiness, 160
• Fear, stress, fatigue, and ambiguity erode officers’ bias-override capacity #complicates (0.82) — Joseph Avery, Jim Sidanius, Joel Cooper, Gregory Davis, Amanda N., Bias in the Law, 409
• Normalised uncertainty converts fear of objects into diffuse chronic anxiety. #corroborates (0.78) — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1626
• Managerial surveillance techniques in education deliberately spread anxiety and erode teacher autonomy #exemplifies (0.75) — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 2215