We're all biased, often unwittingly. But some tells for blatant bias: \* only fa...

card_zero · 2025-10-19T12:37:53 1760877473

Those are all about fallibility, really, and encouraging criticism. The opposites:

* possible holes in the argument/narrative are presented

* difficult feats like reading minds are admitted to be difficult

* possibly misleading words are hedged

* unimpassioned thought is encouraged

* sources are given (so claims can be checked or researched)

This is all compatible with being totally biased, in the point of view you actually present amid all this niceness. (Expressing fallibility is also an onerous task that will clutter up your rhetoric, but that's another matter.)

Uh, but I could be wrong.

shikon7 · 2025-10-19T01:24:07 1760837047

But maybe your tells are also biased. If you're truly unbiased, then

* any facts supporting another view are by definiton biased, and should not be presented

* you have the only unbiased objective interpretation of the minds of the subjects

* you don't bias against using words just because they are hyperbolic

* something unbiased would inevitably be boring, so you need emotional appeal to make anyone care about it

* since no sources are unbiased, identifying any of them would inevitably lead to a bias