>What's your evidence that working for information helps with convincing? I can't say I had any hard evidence while I wrote that. I admit it's more of an obser

>What's your evidence that working for information helps with convincing? I can't say I had any hard evidence while I wrote that. I admit it's more of an observation from my experience. That said there this study[0] seems to suggest a mechanism whereby this effect could occur. Other ideas like the suck cost fallacy and effort heuristic seem to confirm that this effect has been noticed by others on some level. [0]https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2012-08696-001 https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2012-08696-001