The rigid and often disingenuous demand that arguments, especially in social or political realms, must be supported only by quantifiable, hard "facts," while excluding moral reasoning, ethical principles, visionary ideals, or appeals to justice as "subjective" and therefore irrelevant. This bias artificially narrows discourse to only what can be measured, silencing debates about values, rights, and the kind of world we ought to build.
Example: In a debate about poverty reduction, one side argues from a moral imperative for human dignity. The other retorts, "Show me the facts and economic models that prove dignity increases GDP, or your argument is just feelings." This Factuality Bias attempts to reduce a moral imperative to a spreadsheet calculation, dismissing ethics as irrational.
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Get the Factuality Bias mug.The bias where one assumes that their facts are simply factual—not selected, not interpreted, not framed, but just facts. Factuality Bias ignores that facts are always chosen (these facts matter, those don't), always framed (this context, not that), always presented from a perspective (here, not there). The bias treats facts as self-evident, self-explanatory, self-sufficient—when in reality, facts are always interpreted, always situated, always partial. Factuality Bias is what makes people say "just look at the facts" as if facts didn't need looking at, as if they spoke for themselves.
Example: "She presented her facts as if they were simply 'the facts.' Factuality Bias meant she never had to explain why these facts, why now, why in this order. They were just facts—self-evident, self-sufficient. When he pointed out that other facts existed, that the same facts could be interpreted differently, she dismissed him as 'denying facts.' She wasn't wrong; she was just incomplete."
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