An especially egregious variation on this theme is evolutionary psychological speculation. I speculate that people do this because in the ancestral environment your audience wouldn’t call you out on it if you came up with a fully general explanation of something and asserted it confidently as long as your audience already agreed with your conclusion.
An especially egregious variation on this theme is evolutionary psychological speculation. I speculate that people do this because in the ancestral environment your audience wouldn’t call you out on it if you came up with a fully general explanation of something and asserted it confidently as long as your audience already agreed with your conclusion.