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Re:No engineer has ever sued because of constructive post-in... by Aeolun on Thursday February 06, 2020 @07:40PM (#22262065)
If noone has sued about feedback in the past 10 years, over probably millions of interviews, it’s a fairly safe bet that nobody will sue in the next 10.
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Re:No engineer has ever sued because of constructive post-in... by xtracto on Thursday February 06, 2020 @10:20PM (#22262951)
That is not how expected utility works... theres a probability of being sued a d there's an impact of the event of being sued or bad mouthed in social media... even if the probability is low, the negative expected utility (expected loss) is still high because of the impact value ... Not worth it.
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Re:No engineer has ever sued because of constructive post-in... by Dylan16807 on Friday February 07, 2020 @02:27AM (#22263902)
> even if the probability is low, the negative expected utility (expected loss) is still high because of the impact value

The impact would have to be astronomical. It's not.

> bad mouthed in social media

Which could happen anyway. And feedback might actually reduce the chances.

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