{"id":1269,"date":"2024-08-10T21:24:18","date_gmt":"2024-08-10T20:24:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/johntownshend.com\/wordpress\/?p=1269"},"modified":"2025-12-28T17:20:15","modified_gmt":"2025-12-28T17:20:15","slug":"bias","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jwt.quest\/wordpress\/bias\/","title":{"rendered":"Bias"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I don\u2019t want to make this about \u201cus\u201d and \u201cthem\u201d.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I don\u2019t want to have a special preference for something just because I have put time, effort, and\/or money into that thing.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I don\u2019t want to think of any human being as being an \u201cother\u201d.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I don\u2019t want to ignore new evidence because it\u2019s different to my beliefs.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I don\u2019t want to believe things whose evidence is all from the same source or methodology, more than multiple sources and different reasoning.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I don\u2019t want to rely on anecdotes and anomalies to prove something.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I don\u2019t want to invent a relationship between two unrelated things.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I don\u2019t want to believe something just because I think about it a lot.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I don\u2019t want to make existence all about the human experience.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I don\u2019t want to necessarily associate things because I have associated them before.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I don\u2019t want to avoid thinking about things because they have never happened before.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I don\u2019t want to inadvertently manipulate my life into being just my expectations.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I don\u2019t want to assume I am less biased than anyone else.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I don\u2019t want to assume that people who agree with one thing I believe necessarily share more beliefs of mine.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I don\u2019t want to assign high accuracy to descriptions that are deliberately vague and wide.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I don\u2019t want to assume something is true because it fits in with my current beliefs.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I don\u2019t want to think I am in control of things that I am not.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I don\u2019t want to overestimate how much other people have knowledge of my mental health.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I don\u2019t want to assume others are more egotistical than myself.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I don\u2019t want to think I can make consistent decisions at varying levels of tiredness and\/or hunger.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I don\u2019t want to assume that other people are more predictable than myself.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I don\u2019t want to necessarily be more compassionate to fewer identifiable victims than more unidentified ones.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I don\u2019t want to assume losing something is more impactful than having gained it.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I don\u2019t want to appreciate an immediate benefit more than something that has a later payoff that is arguably more valuable.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I don\u2019t want to ignore probability when making an uncertain decision.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I don\u2019t want to prefer making a very small risk into zero risk over making a very large risk into a very small one.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I don\u2019t want to draw different conclusions from the same information presented in different ways.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I don\u2019t want to think of dread as outweighing the power of savouring.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I don\u2019t want to assume the status quo is better than an alternative because it\u2019s what I am used to.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I don\u2019t want to assume that big events have big consequences.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I don\u2019t want to doubt my actual talents and abilities in fear of being called a fraud.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I don\u2019t want to favour opinions of people just because they are in the same demographic or group or situation as myself.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I don\u2019t want to believe in a statement just because it has been made multiple times.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I don\u2019t want to believe in a statement just because it has been made multiple times.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I don\u2019t want to believe in a statement just because it has been made multiple times.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I don\u2019t want to think knowing about bias is enough to overcome it.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don\u2019t want to make this about \u201cus\u201d and \u201cthem\u201d. I don\u2019t want to have a special preference for something just because I have put time, effort, and\/or money into that thing. I don\u2019t want to think of any human being as being an \u201cother\u201d. I don\u2019t want to ignore new evidence because it\u2019s different &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jwt.quest\/wordpress\/bias\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Bias<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jwt.quest\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jwt.quest\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jwt.quest\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jwt.quest\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jwt.quest\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1269"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jwt.quest\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1269\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2112,"href":"https:\/\/jwt.quest\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1269\/revisions\/2112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jwt.quest\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jwt.quest\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jwt.quest\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}