Today's post, Motivated Stopping and Motivated Continuation was originally published on 28 October 2007. A summary (taken from the LW wiki):

When the evidence we've seen points towards a conclusion that we like or dislike, there is a temptation to stop the search for evidence prematurely, or to insist that more evidence is needed.

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