Travel is down, we all know that, and few are being impacted as much as the cruise lines. Everyone is trying to come up with interesting & compelling new promotional ideas to get bookings. None however are quite as bizarre as TUI Cruises in Germany who is offering a refund to brides who become pregnant on its new liner, Mein Schiff, during their honeymoon cruise.
Needless to say the brides need to provide medical evidence.
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We tend to think memory is where our account of an event becomes unreliable. But the process begins earlier. Attention is selective, perception is incomplete, and two people can experience the same event while noticing very different things.
The data is good. The model is sound. And the decision still doesn’t hold the way it should. The problem isn’t the analysis. It’s what the analysis assumes about the stability of the world it’s describing.
The frustration with institutions isn’t wrong. But the explanation usually is. The problem isn’t political will or institutional timidity. It’s a design built for a world that no longer exists.