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Eugine_Nier comments on People who "don't rationalize"? [Help Rationality Group figure it out] - Less Wrong
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This seems wrong, rationalizing is what you do to inconvenient data instead of ignoring it.
Speaking for myself, I think that rationalizing does typically (always?) involve ignoring something. Not ignoring the first piece of inconvenient data, necessarily, but the horrible inelegance of my ad-hoc auxiliary hypotheses, or such.