In his fascinating book 'The Righteous Mind' Jonathan Haidt provides evidence to show how people think more systematically and self critically when they know in advance that they will have to explain themselves.  To this end, the duty to publish equality impact assessments should help serve to ensure that policy makers and decision-takers reflect properly on the equality implications of options under consideration.  

However, evidence also finds that there are different types of careful reason...
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