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What changes when you have to explain exactly how your opinion would work?

Supporting a proposal and explaining the steps by which it would produce a result are different tasks. Experiments on political policies asked people for detailed causal explanations rather than just reasons for their views. Discovering a gap in an explanation can reveal uncertainty without, by itself, proving the position wrong.

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  • Which link between the proposal and its intended result is least clear?
  • How could explaining a policy's mechanism expose a gap that rating support for it would miss?

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