Lumifer wrote, “Pretty much everyone does that almost all the time.” I just figured that given what we know of heuristics and biases, there exists a charitable interpretation of the assertion that makes it true. Since the meat of the matter was about deliberate subversion of a clear-eyed assessment of the evidence, I didn’t want to get into the weeds of exactly what Lumifer meant.
Lumifer wrote, “Pretty much everyone does that almost all the time.” I just figured that given what we know of heuristics and biases, there exists a charitable interpretation of the assertion that makes it true. Since the meat of the matter was about deliberate subversion of a clear-eyed assessment of the evidence, I didn’t want to get into the weeds of exactly what Lumifer meant.