The usual assumption is that public perception of quality is systematically biased and that individuals willing to do better shouldn’t automatically agree with it. It’s not a given that good indicators of quality known to experts are widely accepted. This post presents a hypothesis that public perception may be a pretty good indicator, incorporating other indicators as they become known.
The usual assumption is that public perception of quality is systematically biased and that individuals willing to do better shouldn’t automatically agree with it. It’s not a given that good indicators of quality known to experts are widely accepted. This post presents a hypothesis that public perception may be a pretty good indicator, incorporating other indicators as they become known.
I thought the post’s idea was that perception (by the “right” public) is status, and that’s all there is to it—it’s not a proxy but the real thing.