"Russell Slade has a settled squad.
Settling on an explanation triggers a "lockdown" of our minds, in the same way that a fertilized egg locks out competing sperm.
FiveThirtyEight tried to answer that question, settling on an explanation one part personal (wanting to finish the campaign on an up-note) and three parts strategic (advisers, activists and party elders may have urged him to stay the course, a course they believed could end in the nomination).
One speaker argued that economists should give up on prediction and settle for explanation, identifying where earthquakes might strike, if not when, and how they might be withstood, if not prevented.
Nine years later, she reappeared with no explanation, settling back in with her mother and son.
It turned out that judges often settled for explanations that were feeble or worse; the unappealing alternative, from an elected judge's point of view, was calling the local prosecutor a liar.
They quickly settled on an "explanation," a "guilty culprit": law schools, by presenting misleadingly optimistic employment data, had induced innocents to enroll who never would have gone to law school.
Three months after the news broke that Donald Trump's personal attorney paid off a porn star a few weeks before the 2016 election, the president has finally settled on an explanation: He "fully reimbursed" Michael Cohen in 2017, according to his new financial disclosure released Wednesday.
That's a little more difficult to explain but Enriquez and co eventually settle on an explanation.
The numbers indicate a sudden, stunning decline in recent years, about which scientists have not settled on an explanation.
