Re: Confidence: A Basic Politics Puzzle

Hara Ra (harara@shamanics.com)
Tue, 18 Feb 1997 20:26:44 -0800


Robin Hanson wrote:
>
> Haveing now spent several years in pursuit of a Ph.D. in political
> economy, the following observation stands out to me as the most
> puzzling: Why do people seem so damn confident of their political
> opinions?
>
Confident opinination = 1 / Verifiability

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