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		newshorts on Oct 2, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: We Are All Confident Idiots (2014) Right? Isn’t this a basic premise of the article? The person will resist the documented facts because they don’t align with their deeply held beliefs.

AnimalMuppet on Oct 2, 2019 [–]

Their manager might care, though.

77pt77 on Oct 2, 2019 | [–]

Chances are if they do it had nothing to do with the facts.

They were already primed to find an excuse to punish them, but the facts are that, an excuse and never the reason.

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