2012年6月6日

What we don’t realize, however, is that common sense often works just like mythology.（中略）The cost, however, is that we think we have understood things that in fact we have simply papered over with a plausible-sounding story.  And because this illusion of understanding in turn undercuts our motivation to treat social problems the way we treat problems in medicine, engineering, and science, the unfortunate result is that common sense actually inhibits our understanding of the world.

By Duncan Watts (“Everything is obvious once you know the answer” より抜粋)

これは、Sociologyに限った問題では無く、サイエンスでも同じことがいえる。

しっかり考えないで、もっともらしい説明（Publishできる、あるいはPublishし易い結論）にトラップされ、本質を見抜けないでいる。