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inconsistent disproportions of signal and noise.

There are anecdotal accounts of people seeing the prisoners of concentration camps for the first time and assuming they must have been terrible criminals. The first place the mind goes is the place where the world is just.

Why do you do this?

The article address the consequences of the just-world fallacy that is apparently innate. The ill, rape victims, and the impoverished deserve their misfortune. The fortunate, wealthy, and recognized are so because of their character and action. Meritocracy is a baseline for interpretation (rationalizing) and naturally extends to places (sex victims) it clearly doesn’t belong. Not so clearly, it may be that merit is always an inappropriate perspective. Malcolm Gladwell has something to say here (Outliers).

I like this perspective on the demonizing of rape victims. It’s not a process of patriarchy. It is the result of a natural cognitive fallacy. It’s Hanlon’s Razor: “never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.”

Also, Why does the author say “Why do _you_ do this?” Should it not be “Why do _we_ do this?”