I find amusing that your reaction is exactly as described in their experiment: people have a favorable bias toward someone who stuck to his course of action eve

I find amusing that your reaction is exactly as described in their experiment: people have a favorable bias toward someone who stuck to his course of action even after multiple failures than someone trying multiple different approaches. It's double amusing since the paper starts by outlining multiple cases where an administration of company stuck to decision to ultimate failure, yet the one example that you chose to single out is the one about president Carter being seen as waffling.