The professor's argument, for all its sophistication, ultimately rests on a homely intuition: that people are rarely as rational as the models suppose, and that this departure from rationality is itself patterned and predictable.
As used in the text, what does the word "homely" most nearly mean?
- A
domestic in setting
- Bcheck_circle
plain and unpretentious
- C
homesick
- D
physically unattractive
Explanation
The intuition is plain and unpretentious — homely as opposed to elaborate. Not the American sense of "physically unattractive," nor "domestic" or "homesick."