And the cry has become 'they must be stopped!' It is a rash mind that rushes to sign a petition to scrap the plans before they have even been explained, let alone discussed or implemented.
Some of the FCC's reticence to speak out may have even been explained as part of the request by the inspector general not to discuss the investigation.
Structural learning and uncertainty over different structures have even been reported to explain human decision making in more complex sequential decision tasks that have previously been interpreted as exposing suboptimal behaviour on the part of the human decision makers [53].
More recently, scholars have begun to look at this work (which will fill an estimated 15,000 pages in its modern edition), but less than ten percent of it has been translated into Western languages and even this has not been explained and interpreted adequately.
"Even after it has been explained to you 100 times, you can still fall prey" to the bias, said Philip E. Tetlock, a professor of management at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
Many taking part in clinical research still partake of the 'therapeutic misconception' that they may benefit from research, even if it has been explained to them that benefit is unlikely [ 57].
Nothing has really been explained to me.
Of course, it is an empirical question whether such oversight is the source of invalid reasoning, or whether another hypothesis better explains why many people find Simpson's Reversals to be impossible at first, and why the reversals continue to be surprising even after their source has been explained to them.
After witnessing two operations and speaking to the president of the Shanghai Medical University, who himself had undergone two thyroid operations with acupuncture, Dr. Nuland comes away a believer — even though the procedure "has still not been explained in terms acceptable to most orthodox Western scientists using orthodox Western investigative methods".
One fashionable client apparently aroused from bed, was indignant even after the situation had been explained to her. "I do think you might have managed to let me know yesterday," she said.
