At this point we seem to be reasoning by analogy. We'd do better to just study the fact of the matter. Psychologists do not tend to discuss this topic in terms

At this point we seem to be reasoning by analogy. We'd do better to just study the fact of the matter. Psychologists do not tend to discuss this topic in terms of weightings. https://www.patheos.com/blogs/tippling/2013/11/14/post-hoc-rationalisation-reasoning-our-intuition-and-changing-our-minds/ https://www.patheos.com/blogs/tippling/2013/11/14/post-hoc-r... http://www.theunconsciousconsumer.com/consumer-psychology/2015/9/8/rationalizing-post-hoc-rationalization http://www.theunconsciousconsumer.com/consumer-psychology/20... (regrettably thin on citations) https://academic.oup.com/scan/article/6/4/460/1648209 https://academic.oup.com/scan/article/6/4/460/1648209 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rationalization_(psychology) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rationalization_(psychology)