IME, in these situations the answer is typically “Because I don’t want to accept the status-hit associated with being perceived as not caring about the evidence.” That is, I would rather think of myself as someone who evaluated the evidence and came to my conclusion, rather than someone who came to my conclusion without evidence.
Which makes it tricky to get people to admit to it when doing the latter, since that’s just yet another way to take the status hit.
Lowering the wall can help a little… that is, artificially reducing the perceived status hit of admitting to not caring about the evidence.
IME, in these situations the answer is typically “Because I don’t want to accept the status-hit associated with being perceived as not caring about the evidence.” That is, I would rather think of myself as someone who evaluated the evidence and came to my conclusion, rather than someone who came to my conclusion without evidence.
Which makes it tricky to get people to admit to it when doing the latter, since that’s just yet another way to take the status hit.
Lowering the wall can help a little… that is, artificially reducing the perceived status hit of admitting to not caring about the evidence.