Projection

A slide deck that everyone has been promised, everyone has prepared for, and nobody can successfully display.

Dave spent two hours saying ‘let me share my screen’ before we realized the quarterly report was a projection in every sense of the word.

Projection by Brokefast July 2, 2026

Projection Cutting 

Projection cutting is when you're talking about your opinions and sharing something with a group of people or just one person, and someone interrupts you rudely or doesn't acknowledge what you said and starts to talk about what they think, as if your thoughts, views or ideas don't matter.

Girl 1: Wow, Jane was really projection cutting me today in class.
Girl 2: Totally - we don't even care about her skeevy opinions anyway.

Projection Cutting by luckytoad March 4, 2010

Projection Bucktee 

A football fantasy term used for a person that fiends seeing high projections. Makes decisions based on projections. And starts and sits solely on projections to see that overall projection be higher. To a point where projections overpower rational knowledge

The only reason why armin started Amari cooper this week is because he’s a projection bucktee.

Projection Bucktee by Cheetooburritoo October 19, 2022

Projection Erection 

when trump aka Casino Mobster gets aroused after projecting his shortcomings on perceived enemies

in a recent, word-salad Projection Erection speech outside the courthouse, Tubby claimed Letitia James and Biden conspired against him using White House visitor logs. as The Former Guy gets a boner every time he makes a confession-accusation, it obviously means donald committed felonies with visitors to his mobbed-up white house

Projection Erection by Uncle Joosie January 12, 2024

Projection of the Scientific Method

A cognitive bias where one projects the scientific method—as one understands it—onto all forms of inquiry, assuming that any legitimate search for knowledge must follow the same procedures. This projection operates when someone insists that history isn't real because it can't run experiments; that philosophy is worthless because it doesn't test hypotheses; that personal experience is invalid because it's not reproducible. The projection lies in taking a method that works brilliantly for certain questions and assuming it must work for all questions—that the scientific method isn't one tool among many but the only tool worth having. This projection closes off whole domains of understanding, dismissing them as "unscientific" rather than recognizing that different questions require different methods.

Example: "He claimed that literary criticism wasn't real knowledge because it didn't use the scientific method—projection of the scientific method onto a domain where it simply doesn't apply."

Projection of the Scientific Method by Dumu The Void March 19, 2026

Projection of Reality

A cognitive bias where one projects one's own experience of reality onto the world itself—assuming that the way things appear to one is simply how they are, and that others who experience differently are deluded, mistaken, or lying. Projection of reality operates when someone says "that's not real" about experiences they haven't had; when they dismiss alternative perspectives as fantasy; when they cannot accept that reality might appear differently to different people. The projection lies in mistaking one's own perception for the thing perceived—confusing the map with the territory, the experience with the reality. It closes off understanding of others' experiences, making genuine dialogue impossible because one's own reality is treated as the only reality.

Example: "He'd never experienced discrimination, so he insisted it wasn't real—projection of reality, assuming that what he hadn't seen couldn't exist."

Projection of Reality by Dumu The Void March 19, 2026

Projection of Bias

A cognitive bias where one projects the accusation of bias onto others while remaining blind to one's own biases—assuming that bias is something others have, not something that affects everyone. Projection of bias operates when someone says "you're biased" as a conversation-stopper, never acknowledging their own situatedness; when they analyze everyone else's motivations while assuming their own are transparent; when they treat bias as a flaw that only opponents possess. The projection lies in the blindness to self—the assumption that one occupies a privileged position outside the fray, that one's own perceptions are clear while others' are distorted. It's the meta-bias: the bias of thinking oneself unbiased.

Example: "He could list every bias his opponents had but had never examined his own assumptions—projection of bias, treating bias as something others have while remaining invisible to himself."

Projection of Bias by Dumu The Void March 19, 2026