The ability to admit being wrong is one of the most important virtues, and it is extremely difficult. It should be emphasized in families and schools alongside standard virtues like honesty, sharing, and kindness, starting as young as possible.
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In other words, in punditry, expressing nuance or uncertainty is strongly disincentivized. If you do it too much, you will find yourself not being invited to be on the various talking head shows.
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Basically, if you never, ever admit that you are wrong, and express your views with overweening confidence, justified or not, you'll find yourself on more TV and radio gigs, because the conflict and arguing are what the producers are after, not a nuanced discussion.
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Yeah. Even people who have been publicly, high profile, OBVIOUSLY proven wrong never ever apologise. I'm sure there's a reason. People will use it as an excuse to dogpile, play the video over and over, and the victim won't care anyway. Much better careerwise to be right.
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