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And now that you know the actual findings, I'm sure you can, post-hoc, do the same thing to explain why women really performed better.
Sam Sommers: Mars and Venus in the... Parking Garage? Sam Sommers 2012
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And now that you know the actual findings, I'm sure you can, post-hoc, do the same thing to explain why women really performed better.
Sam Sommers: Mars and Venus in the... Parking Garage? Sam Sommers 2012
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The tendency there is to map, post-hoc, any deviation from rationality onto a series of ill-defined models of cognition (availability heuristic, anchoring and adjustment, etc.).
The Volokh Conspiracy » Further to Andrew Ferguson on Behavioral Economics 2010
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But judges should not be subject to voters 'post-hoc wrath.
Iowa judicial recall Michael Tomasky 2010
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Last I looked rape, no matter what your post-hoc reasoning for it you can come up with (tiny pink elephant told me to do it, my cave-man genes told me to do it, my vengeful god told me to do it, …), it remains illegal and you will be punished.
Assessing Fault 2009
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The tendency there is to map, post-hoc, any deviation from rationality onto a series of ill-defined models of cognition (availability heuristic, anchoring and adjustment, etc.).
The Volokh Conspiracy » Further to Andrew Ferguson on Behavioral Economics 2010
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You just hear more complaints from firemen because there are Civil Service laws that are supposed to prevent post-hoc fiddling.
The Volokh Conspiracy » So a Libertarian and a Liberal Walk into a Bar 2010
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Never mind that the melting pot model was a post-hoc invention.
The Volokh Conspiracy » AZ Boycott and the Constitution: 2010
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We took it from her tone and some post-hoc deductive reasoning that our friend meant that the women she saw in that bar were acting, dressing and living in a more mainstream way.
Dave Hollander: So What Exactly Is a "Golf Lesbian?" Dave Hollander 2010
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Bilbo, the question of unlikelihood on the Pentagon strike that you raise suffers from a post-hoc assumption that the pilot accomplished the trajectory on purpose and chose the target to render the least amount of casualties. i.e., knew in advance to strike the not-finished reinforced wall at ground level rather than just aiming for the complex to take as many as possible.
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