So a couple of people have now pointed out that my efforts to divide reliability and trustworthyness ended in confusion.
To simplify:
When we interact with things, we form an idea in our minds of how the things are going to behave.
➡ If the thing always behaves how we expect it to, that is trustworthy.
➡ If the thing always behaves the same, even if it is unexpectly the same, that is reliable.
In the recent election, voting machines proved their reliability. For the most part they were very consistent in their behavior. On the other hand, the final results diverged a bit from the polls, which some people did not really expect. As a result, they are lacking in trust.
But then, what reason would someone have to prefer to mistrust the voting machine rather than the polls?
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