I think it probably harks back to "that can't happen to me, because if it did it would be too horrible" plus the common "I make preparations to feel like I have control over natural disasters" (which combats with the very real control you *can* have over how disasters affect you...within reason).
Plus, preparedness is, like, effort, whereas completely ineffective measures that are trivial (say, hanging a horse shoe on the weathervane for luck) have just as much *apparent* effect when the disaster is avoided. So why not do the easy thing? Shades of cargo-culting.
In short: no, I don't know what it's called, but there should be a name, and DARN is it frustrating!
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I think it probably harks back to "that can't happen to me, because if it did it would be too horrible" plus the common "I make preparations to feel like I have control over natural disasters" (which combats with the very real control you *can* have over how disasters affect you...within reason).
Plus, preparedness is, like, effort, whereas completely ineffective measures that are trivial (say, hanging a horse shoe on the weathervane for luck) have just as much *apparent* effect when the disaster is avoided. So why not do the easy thing? Shades of cargo-culting.
In short: no, I don't know what it's called, but there should be a name, and DARN is it frustrating!
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Or maybe the implied claim is that meteorologists can't predict the weather but political opinionators can do so perfectly?
Well, that stands to reason...they do blow most of the hot air in this hemisphere...