What bias actually is

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A lot of people these days dont know what bias actually is. For instance they say that Nazis are biased, but humanists are not. Actually both are biased bigots.

What exactly is bias, though? Is it a preference or taste? We all have different preferences and tastes, for instance most of us would rather eat eggs than shit in the toilet. So are we biased against shit?

I think bias is deeper than mere preferences and taste. Actually bias is defined as an aversion and disdain to the process of the scientific method! Bias is not a subjective thing…bias is a mathematical disobedience to the scientifc method, usually arising from a personal prejudice.

For instance, a guy on Fox news doesnt like democrats, so he tries to spin the story using logical fallacies to make them look bad. Or someone interprets neutral data in a way to support their bias. So bias actually has two components…a disobedience to scientific honesty, arising from a personal prejudice.

So can we say that liberals are not biased? Actually, humanists and liberals are quite biased, because they try to state that there is no difference between the races, that all races are the same and we are equal! They use their personal bias to skew the data to compensate for obvious statistical differences! So actually liberals and humanists are biased bigots!

Quite simply bias is simply the act of skewing or distorting the truth to accomodate a personal preference. For example, someone could say that most women are less spatially skilled, but they would not be biased, because they would still potentially hire a woman if she did so happen to be spatially skilled.

Hope that makes it more clear.

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I say bias follows from psychological denial and denial follows from lack of freedom for feelings to be expressed.

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Liberals and humanists merely invert the bias.

If racists are biased towards certain races, i.e. relying not on reason but on emotions to determine the hierarchy of races, then liberals and humanists are biased in the sense that they rely on emotions and not on reason to counter the bias of racists. Hence they end up dismissing the entire concept of hierarchy.

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They are both emotional and biased, the only difference between the two is the type of bias.

They can see each other’s mistakes (biases) but never their own.

To both, there is nothing outside the two extremes. Either you are a racist or you are a humanist.

Both misrepresent everything that is not them as belonging to the other extreme.

Racists see non-racists as humanists and humanists see non-humanists as racists.

This is the consequence of their inability to discriminate.

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Who are these people? I haven’t heard this assertion. I have to get out more.

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And if one’s bias is towards the scientific method?