Ostrich effect: ignoring bad news will not make them disappear

“Don’t hide your head in the sand like an ostrich,” we usually say to those who try to avoid problems by avoiding them. Although it is not true that ostriches hide their heads in the sand in the face of danger, this myth has taken root so deeply in the popular imagination that it has even served to give a name to a cognitive bias that we have all suffered at least once: ‘Ostrich…