Sixth Guideline Requirements

When you witness someone's behavior and your best bet is this person is biased or has an unstated agenda, your belief should ideally be something like. "If I magically knew for a fact that that wasn't what was happening the next most likely explanation would be something" That extra step of pausing to consider what else might explain your observations besides your primary theory is one that is extremely useful and worth practicing until it becomes routine. People who do not have this reflex tend to fall into many more pits and blind spots and have a much harder time bridging inferential gaps especially with those that they do not already agree with.