154. Objectivity
The Allusionist
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Objectivity Is Dead, and I'm Ok With It
The word bias, by the way, came from french meaning a slope ol, a skance. But english got it in the mid 15 hundreds by the game of bolls. At that time, the balls in bowls were weighted on one side, so when rolled along the ground, their paths would curve. The balls were biased. That notion soon became used figuratively, as shakespeare refers to it in eight of his plays as, bias makes our minds skew in a particular direction. A lot of them don't want to be accused of b and since they can't cater to every possible stance, they have to be biased about who they'd rather be accused of being biased by.
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