I've had several complaints that Diane is not seeing Eric's obvious interest in her on a permanent basis.
Well, she decided on what their relationship was early. She noted inconsistencies between his actions and her model, but people act inconsistently all the time.
One reason that she didn't jump on the alternative explanation is that she didn't think she could live with the alternative explanation.
When one inconsistency got too great, she asked. She acted on the answer.
Now, she knows what Eric wants.
I don't think I've made her terribly irrational.
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In the real-live USA, there are hugr numbers of people who believe that lower taxes o the rich are great accellorators of economic growth.
Every time that there is a tax cut on the rich, they tell us that this will lead to tremendous growth.
Then the next time, they point out that we habe anemic growth, and we should have another tax cut for the rich, because that always leads to great growth
Simply the two bold words point out the irrationality of that statement.
So, my fictional character had a cotrafactual model for what was happening. She, however, edited her model to account for events.
I claim that she was not unbelievably cut off from reality