Re:On the bare necessity of psychological safety
by munificent on Thursday April 22, 2021 @01:05PM
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Measuring psychology safety is easy: ask them. "Subjective" != "arbitrary".
Re:On the bare necessity of psychological safety
by 0xBA5ED on Thursday April 22, 2021 @02:24PM
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First: I did not say that subjective means arbitrary. Second: The problem with this is, there still must some agreement on what constitutes an acceptable answer when you "ask them". This brings us back to the subjectivity of psychological injury.
Re:On the bare necessity of psychological safety
by cutemonster on Friday April 23, 2021 @02:00AM
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That's interesting, in that there's a risk that, if they feel really unsafe, they'll want to pretend that all is fine
And if the group is small, even if you try to make the answers anonymous, maybe you still would be able to figure out who wrote what, and they'll realize this, and write mostly nice sounding things
Anyway, asking and talking about it seems like a good idea. Maybe also asking them to read the article being discussed here :-)
Then again, it's reasonably straightforward to measure physical injury and come to some agreement about acceptable risk. Psychological injury is far more subjective.