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  1. Jul 2022
    1. ociologists and historians, on the other hand, usually view it more in line with my definition above. They view strategic ignorance as both an individual and a collective phenomenon. This helps to underscore the role of institutional power and institutional actors in preventing inconvenient facts from becoming more widely known or accepted.

      Willful ignorance, intentional ignorance. For those who are economically benefiting, ignorance that ignores data that threatens their economic livelihood causes maladaptive behavior to intentionally ignore the data that maintains one's own economic benefits.