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"Most people just seem to come up with an answer in their head and then go with that without checking."

Why do they do this though? For what reason does this occur? It's been my experience as well that when people are asked to solve difficult problems they very frequently just take a wild guess at what the answer ought to be and proceed on that basis - like they're constantly surprised by the fact that you can actually look things up. It seems like you can get bizarrely far in these organisations just by having the most basic understanding of what "research" is.

Also very tired of people deciding that it's somehow morally wrong to do the budget. It seems like the common thread here is decision makers having a strong sense of what "ought" to be true and being endlessly helplessly confused when their intuitions don't correspond with reality.

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