at some level of sociodynamics poisoning, it becomes challenging not to dismiss out of hand any proposition that neatly fits a powerful cultural formation's preferred narrative, on the assumption that it's a febrile product of motivated reasoning
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let's say some economic tragedy has happened, and you bring a couple of economists into a room. one is a broadly trained guy with no particular ideological commitments
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he looks at the evidence, tries to imagine ways things could have gone, and re-examines the evidence in light of different things to see how well they fit it. he is doing induction
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are...those different? literally nobody has ever explained the term 'motivated reasoning' to me in a way that made sense, they just *keep using it* and assume I'll get it from context, which, uh, hasn't been helpful.
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has my example helped
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