>We already know what will happen when findings are unpalatable. We'll think of ways to explain why they don't matter and can't possibly be right, or that we we

>We already know what will happen when findings are unpalatable. We'll think of ways to explain why they don't matter and can't possibly be right, or that we weren't measuring the right thing in the first place. And these are just the more obvious cases! Exactly. Whether "conservative" or "progressive" in one's politics, the last decade or so has shown that when faced with a value contrary to one's own, or a bias that contradicts one's own currently held biases, one will simply dismiss the contradiction and likely hunker down on those preexisting values or biases. In the current era that is manifesting itself as who can shout the loudest and most outrageously on social media or new-media, facts and reason be damned.