Motivated by tweets from @DavidHenigUK this morning, a challenge:
How could we establish a *fair* picture of where there are supermarket shortages in the UK?
Quick 🧵
How could we establish a *fair* picture of where there are supermarket shortages in the UK?
Quick 🧵
David is right to say that it’s not all as catastrophic as some say, nor not a problem at all as some others do. It’s something in between.
Further as we’ve seen throughout Brexit, some firms cope better with disruption than others (think of EasyJet re-registering planes to Austria very swiftly, while British Airways dithered)
Some firms, maybe some regions, cope better?
Some firms, maybe some regions, cope better?
The problem would be that a systematic crowd sourcing of information - submit pics of your local supermarket, dated etc. would be too open to be gamed and manipulated.
The tech to do that is easy enough - think of the crowd sourced #uksnow maps of the past.
But no one has an incentive to game a snow map. They do with this, because it’s political.
But no one has an incentive to game a snow map. They do with this, because it’s political.
Which leaves us with this weird situation where we know there are problems, but nothing to help us really understand them, or be able to know what to do about them. It’s frustrating.
Would there be a way to use some wisdom of the crowds here rather than a bias of the crowds, to understand this?
/ends
/ends
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