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Jim Balter's avatar

You don't know his intent. There's good reason to find his frequent insistence that he's acting in good faith to be less than compelling ... for instance, this bit about Maya Angelou, where he addresses a strawman. Basically his book says that Angelou was shaking her tail feathers but Clinton saw past that ... "managed not to woo him" describes a signaling failure. Clinton being impressed is (purportedly) something he did by seeing past the signal, not something that Angelou did. When Manchester refers to her "career", he's talking about *her* actions and decisions, not which gigs she's invited to by others. And Hanson and Simler clearly put forth the *idea* that those actions and decisions are a matter of signaling -- "shaking her tail feathers".

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David Condon's avatar

I just today ran into an argument that made exactly this error in a completely different context, and thought of this post.

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