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The thumb your brain keeps on the scale while swearing it isn't weighing anything.
means A tendency to lean toward or against something in a way that skews judgment, often without the person noticing it.
from Comes from Old French 'biais' meaning slant or oblique, originally a bowls (lawn-bowling) term for the weighted, lopsided ball that curved as it rolled instead of going straight. By the 1500s English speakers had borrowed the word for any slanted tendency in a person's thinking — the mental equivalent of a ball that just won't roll true.
- bowling origin
- Literally meant a weighted ball that curves
- confirmation bias
- You seek proof you were already right
- statistics meaning
- Systematic error, distinct from random noise
- unconscious kind
- Operates even when you swear you're neutral