Many mainstream economists got their kicks, promotions and consultantships by playing with complex numbers having concern for human experience, whether manipulated, gouged or drawn from ignorance, despair, fear, lack of time or gullibility.
It's easy to condemn Sandra for her gullibility and lack of empathy, but Ms. Dowd, fully inhabiting the fatigued body and mind of a harried service-industry worker, never lets us forget the context that compels her to act as she does.
But there is reason to be concerned about the apparent gullibility or lack of relevant experience in public members of the latest such committee set up to advise on anti-corruption.
He made us realize that the weak link in the Internet system isn't a lack of government oversight, but our own gullibility.
There's a unanimity of gullibility out there".
The News called Koch a "knucklehead... possessed of a rare combination of gullibility and cavalier indifference to money".
The answer, according to Stephen Greenspan, author of "Annals of Gullibility," is pretty easy.
"I think cynical people are extraordinarily gullible," said Stephen Greenspan, emeritus professor of educational psychology at the University of Connecticut and the author of "Annals of Gullibility" (Praeger, 2008).
The history of our craft is tarnished by episodes of gullibility, denial and blind ignorance on the part of major news organizations.
She was more than a match for Nerone, played with a fine balance of gullibility and imperial impatience by Marcus Ullmann.
There was a time when some Rangers people - and, yes, some journalists - might have bought that line, but surely the era of gullibility has passed for most.
