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A "normally rational person" is a person that is emotional at least 50% of the time but convinces themselves otherwise. Facts that seem to go against a person's
by atilaneves 9y ago
A "normally rational person" is a person that is emotional at least 50% of the time but convinces themselves otherwise. Facts that seem to go against a person's beliefs provoke cognitive dissonance - it doesn't matter how technical they are or how logical they need to be to do their jobs.
- adrianratnapala 9y agoIt goes beyond that, Sabine Hossenfelder is better than a "normally rational person", she is seriously very smart it is in her bones to make a decent rational case for whatever she is saying. And here I am talking about her blog posts, not her job -- I have never read any of her papers. But in this case though, she is does repeat some interweb fallacies about the memo, even though she has certainly read it herself and thought about it for herself. But she does get the important thing right: which is that even if the memo is as bad as she says it is, it's still no reason for a sacking. [Disclamer: I am a Googler, but quite obviously I am not speaking for the company here.]
- halfnibble 9y agoIs that what the PC police told you to put at the bottom of all your online posts? ;)