A couple of weeks ago in NZN I complained about what I called the “explain/excuse conflation”—the assumption that when you try to explain why someone did something bad, you’re trying to excuse their behavior. In fact, I went so far as to call this common tendency an “existential psychological threat,” because I think that, along with such cognitive bias…
Robert Wright's Nonzero
The explain/excuse conflation must die!
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Robert Wright's Nonzero
Conversations with a series of people who have nothing in common except that program host Robert Wright is curious about what they’re thinking.
Conversations with a series of people who have nothing in common except that program host Robert Wright is curious about what they’re thinking.Listen on
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