Sczcesny makes some
really good saves, as someone mentioned he is a good shot stopper, but his
decision making is
irrational and not good for cohesion in our defense.
That kind of thinking leads to
irrational decision making and it's what leads card holders to persuade themselves that they
really do get value out of a card that, in reality, hasn't provided value for years.
I was at a dinner a couple weeks back at which several journalists spoke on just this issue, and Shankar Vedantam and Chris Mooney made a good case for what I have also suggested (including in my reply to you on April 6); What's
really irrational is for smart people, in support of the myth of perfect rationality and frustrated by the public's «ignorance» about risk, to ignore the mountains of evidence from neuroscience and social sciences about how human perception and
decision - making actually works, about risk or anything else.