> First, and most common is an emotional cause. Falling in love with a theory, settling on it, emotionally, before you even start digging, will make you weight

> First, and most common is an emotional cause. Falling in love with a theory, settling on it, emotionally, before you even start digging, will make you weight data differently. Extremely smart people will fall pray to this and, again, this is not an intellectual issue, it's an emotional one. I think pursuit of truth is an emotional endeavor as much as it is an intellectual one. I agree with this.