We tend to pounce on whatever "insights" we find without questioning their validity or value, we ignore contradictory evidence, and we force our thoughts to conform to our initial explanations.
Even though there is good evidence that our brain can do a version of this, in order to do it optimally (i.e., reach the best possible explanation for incoming information) our brain would have to take the additional step of correcting for known biases in our initial explanations.
In general, distinct, well-resolved, and supported clades were also found for strains and field samples of the terrestrial M. vaginatus and the marine M. chthonoplastes based on Bayesian analyses of this gene (Fig. 2b), a result congruent with our initial explanation of polyphyly based on 16S sequences.
This is our initial explanation, yet there may be others.
If you have more information, be sure to include a link to that next to your initial explanation.
You may need to fake it, especially if the family member really knows how to push your buttons but by staying polite and refusing to argue, cry or make excuses beyond your initial explanation, you don't leave them with a lot of ground to keep arguing.
Our initial, tentative explanation for this, based on the accepted mechanism for the McMurry reaction,[ 18] was that the more electron-rich pyrrole was both more difficult to reduce and less reactive in the subsequent dimerisation of the radical anion species than the bifuran.
He said the initial explanations for the blackout were dominated by rumors and jokes.
The uproar intensified as it became clear that the initial explanations were mere pretext, and the White House couldn't keep its story straight.
Abdullah Hussein Jibara, the deputy governor of Salahuddin Province, said that he did not accept the initial explanations offered by the Americans to the Iraqi police in Ad Dwar and that they should have carried out more checks before the bombing.
The prosecutors' initial explanations, before the spying charges were brought, were different -- that some of the accused had violated exchange controls, and that others, in Hebrew schools, defied rules requiring separation of male and female students in classrooms.
