Don’t be dense. Those are types of biases anyway. Now tell me the biases you’re talking about.
I don’t know how to be any less ambiguous here… I’m literally, deliberately, and intentionally referring to any and all mental hangups which made people think that sticking with Biden would have been better than switching. That switching improved the Democrats chances should have been extremely obvious even without the benefit of hindsight, and the folks who thought otherwise were wrong and should reckon with this so that they can be less wrong in the future.
What part of this is unclear to you?
This is the part that is confusing:
“Biden supporters had biases that prevented them see the big picture.”
Ok, what biases?
“Anchoring bias, blah, blah”
That’s like saying “there are many reasons why that engine doesn’t fit for that car” and then when someone asks you “what reason?” you reply “a technical reason, a mechanical stress reason, an electrical failure reason,” ok, but GIVE ME SOMETHING CONCRETE. Is that red cable sticking out of the engine too thin and it risks catching fire?
Ok, name ONE example bias that you can say it is “anchoring bias” in this case.
That’s all I want, man.
“Democrats have a Status Quo bias because they do this and they do that.”
This is the part that is confusing:
“Biden supporters had biases that prevented them see the big picture.”
Ok, what biases?
I already tried listing all possible biases that might be involved in the misconception and you complained about a lack of specificity.
That’s like saying “there are many reasons why that engine doesn’t fit for that car” and then when someone asks you “what reason?” you reply “a technical reason, a mechanical stress reason, an electrical failure reason,” ok, but GIVE ME SOMETHING.
Oh, I think I understand now. You don’t want to think about Biden supporters as a generalized class who might take any number of different routes to reach the same wrong conclusion, you just want me to explain how psychological bias works.
Ok, name ONE example bias that you can say it is “anchoring bias” in this case.
That’s all I want, man.
Fine. Anchoring bias occurs when an individuals’ judgements or decisions are influenced by a reference point that may be entirely unrelated to the question at hand.
For example, people who took “Biden is the most progressive president ever” as a reference for their judgement that he shouldn’t step down from the race. Regardless of the truth-value of the statement, the reference point was entirely immaterial to the actual question, whether or not another candidate would have improved the partys’ chances in the election, because it tells us nothing about how Biden compared with his electoral competition.
Thus, persons who relied on this anchor to justify their opposition to Biden dropping out did so for fallacious reasons, and an honest reckoning with this might have led them to an opinion which more accurately reflected reality.
