Explanations that tie many loose ends together feel attractive even to skeptics.

Evidence

Even those who reject one or another of these theories often sense the attractiveness of an explanation that ties so many odd bits of behavior together. It sometimes takes a great deal of training and experience to produce a reaction against this kind of explanation as being “too neat to be true.” — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 2557

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the reader’s interest in silence/noise and information theory — the appeal of “too neat” explanations parallels the discomfort of unstructured ambiguity.