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Adjusting behaviour in response to perceived risk changes, often negating safety improvements.
Reduces effectiveness of safety measures, explains why some safety improvements don't reduce accidents as expected.
This bias can completely negate the benefits of safety improvements as people unconsciously increase risky behaviour.
"Your confidence in your own rationality is inversely proportional to your actual rationality. Ironic, isn't it?"