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Your brain's autocorrect, confidently rewriting reality to match what it already believed.
means A systematic tilt in judgment, perception, or measurement that pulls conclusions away from accuracy or fairness.
from From French biais, a slant or oblique cut — originally a bowling term for a ball weighted to curve sideways rather than roll straight.
Lawn bowlsThe weighted bowl literally curves, the original biased object.
Blind spotPeople reliably spot bias in everyone but themselves.
StatisticsA biased estimator misses the truth on average.
Cognitive zooPsychologists have cataloged over 180 named biases.