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Re:The limitations of Steven Pinker’s optimism by olleromam91 on Monday February 26, 2018 @04:58AM (#16464246)
But if a would be problem solver is not psychologically optimistic...what happens to the odds that the problem will be solved?
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Re:The limitations of Steven Pinker’s optimism by joaomacp on Monday February 26, 2018 @08:19AM (#16465024)
They go down. But so do the odds of him being disappointed by failure.
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