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Others pass the conciseness test but may be too contrived.
Yet despite this display of theoretical competence, there is no empirical evidence of non-kin cooperation in a situation, natural or contrived, where the payoffs are known to conform to a Prisoner's Dilemma".
But this in turn raises another issue: Does Ofili want us to ask whether he is any good, or does he not short-circuit the evaluative process by making art contrived to raise hell with Catholics and excite a frisson of old-time anticlericalism in the rest of us?
"The way Salinger handled the publicity he said he did not want was a bit too contrived to get attention itself," Paul Alexander concludes at the end of his new biography.
The example was contrived to illustrate exactly this point: that sometimes we cannot select a site that fits our needs and thus the method is not appropriate.