41. Privacy as a source of errors in
management of risks
Research conducted in private can't be
examined by outside auditors or receive external feedback. As a result, it can
contain more errors than more open sources. Contrariwise, open source data might be of poor
quality because more unskilled or stupid people have the opportunity to edit or
contribute to it29. When disasters or catastrophes are kept secret,
as may have been the case with early Soviet space missions, we lose valuable
feedback that might be used to prevent future disasters.