Open AccessWhy postmortems fail
Author(s) -
Robert Jervis
Publication year - 2022
Publication title -
proceedings of the national academy of sciences of the united states of america
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.011
H-Index - 771
eISSN - 1091-6490
pISSN - 0027-8424
DOI - 10.1073/pnas.2116638118
Subject(s) - politics , medline , political science , psychology , law
Significance Learning from past experiences—especially failures—is central to progress in human affairs. Knowing this, organizations, and especially governments, often conduct postmortems after important policies fail. Unfortunately, however, the combination of political pressures and psychological biases usually leads to the use of flawed social science methods, which make the results of the studies limited and often misleading.