He was a rigorous scholar, a fierce critic of 'sloppy thinking' and a prolific writer.

It will also smoke out any sloppy thinking in how you frame them.

And as more social and community enterprises spring up, we should avoid sloppy thinking about the relationship between ownership, governance and outcome.

For some fifty years, experimental psychologists have been busily, and sometimes gleefully, showing that we are all guilty of bias and sloppy thinking.

I mean the bad bits: sloppy thinking, sloppy practice, ready excuses.