Ockham's razor

English Proper noun en Occam's razor. en 2017-09-30 w:Nate Silver The Media Needs To Stop Rationalizing President Trump's Behavior w:FiveThirtyEight https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-media-needs-to-stop-rationalizing-president-trumps-behavior/amp/ But at many other times, journalists come up with overly convoluted explanations for Trump's behavior ("this seemingly self-destructive emotional outburst is actually a clever political strategy!") when simpler ones will suffice ("this is a self-destructive emotional outburst."). In doing so, they violate both Ockham's razor and Hanlon's razor — the latter of which can be stated as "never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity." https://web.archive.org/web/20170930203312/https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-media-needs-to-stop-rationalizing-president-trumps-behavior/