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Armchair Sociology

The Other Guy Didn’t Win; You Just Failed to Convince People

In politics, business, love and war, we’re tempted to reduce all conflicts to a winner and a loser. By doing this, we imply that one side’s argument (or army) defeated the other soundly. In reality, this rarely happens. That’s because the margin between victory and defeat is often just a Read more…

By Justin, 9 yearsMay 6, 2014 ago

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