Stephen Dubner

No, that was very good.

I'm glad you two came to me for help because it's obvious there's an irreconcilable difference here.

And I'd like to say in all honesty, I think you're both right.

I wouldn't even say these things are opposite.

They plainly can coexist.

What I hear you both saying is that one of the most painful things, I know for me, I think for everybody,

is to be somewhere between being misunderstood and being accused of something you didn't do.

That is a great human injustice, and it always has been.

We've all been accused of things we did.

We've all gotten off with things we did and didn't get caught.

But when you're accused of something you didn't do, you feel this outrage.

And I feel like that's the temperature of the far end of the spectrum.

I thought I was living in a world that made sense and now it doesn't.

I had one in ninth grade, maybe in school.

So I was a good student.

It came kind of naturally.

We had good brain power in the family and I was the youngest of eight.

And so I kind of knew the stuff before I got to the grade, which was handy.

I knew the French just because being in the family was like being in school.

And I was decent at math.