This could be the case, but only in specific political circumstances.
Only a self-deluded person would think that praising the decision after it was made would gain them influence among their peers who just talked about and made the decision. He would be noticed as Fred the weird-colleague-who-doesn’t-talk-during-discussion-but-only-at-the-very-end-once-we’ve-decided-on-things.
Also, your alternative hypothesis, doesn’t seem to account for everyone in the decision group doing it with no further audience, which is the situation I’m talking about.
Only a self-deluded person would think that praising the decision after it was made would gain them influence among their peers who just talked about and made the decision.
We should all be so “self-deluded”! (Do you really mean to tell me that you’ve never encountered this phenomenon?!)
He would be noticed as Fred the weird-colleague-who-doesn’t-talk-during-discussion-but-only-at-the-very-end-once-we’ve-decided-on-things.
I have no idea where this bizarre straw-man came from. I didn’t suggest anything resembling this.
Also, your alternative hypothesis, doesn’t seem to account for everyone in the decision group doing it with no further audience, which is the situation I’m talking about.
It certainly does, unless we’re not only talking about groups where (a) all members participated in the decision-making process and (b) are quite politically savvy, but also positing that all group members have never been in such groups in the past (where they formed a habit that may not be adaptive in all cases, but is nonetheless successful enough of the time to be maintained).
This could be the case, but only in specific political circumstances.
Only a self-deluded person would think that praising the decision after it was made would gain them influence among their peers who just talked about and made the decision. He would be noticed as Fred the weird-colleague-who-doesn’t-talk-during-discussion-but-only-at-the-very-end-once-we’ve-decided-on-things.
Also, your alternative hypothesis, doesn’t seem to account for everyone in the decision group doing it with no further audience, which is the situation I’m talking about.
We should all be so “self-deluded”! (Do you really mean to tell me that you’ve never encountered this phenomenon?!)
I have no idea where this bizarre straw-man came from. I didn’t suggest anything resembling this.
It certainly does, unless we’re not only talking about groups where (a) all members participated in the decision-making process and (b) are quite politically savvy, but also positing that all group members have never been in such groups in the past (where they formed a habit that may not be adaptive in all cases, but is nonetheless successful enough of the time to be maintained).