Why trust is useful

Understand what trust means and through this understanding, why it is useful and in what circumstances it is useful.

Knowledge Node Summary

Essentially, the use of trust simplifies cooperative working and understanding. It does this by providing assurance and confidence in the absence of provable fact. Since trust is used when sound information might not be available, trust must be properly understood and properly established. Trust given without due care and attention increases risk considerably.

A summary of expert opinion:

The knowledge named 'Why trust is useful' is considered to be very important.
In addition, the knowledge is thought to be quite complex and quite difficult to learn, it is generally learned from experience, and is fairly justifiable knowledge.
The learn time for this node given an understanding of the prerequisites, is about 2 weeks. The estimated learn time for the entire knowledge structure of this node is about 3 years.