Confirmation Bias of Everything

The radical epistemological position that all human cognition, without exception, is fundamentally shaped by confirmation bias. It argues that what we call "objective reasoning" is merely a socially-sanctioned, institutionalized form of confirmation bias—one that happens to align with dominant paradigms. From a child learning that fire burns (confirming the hypothesis with each painful touch) to a physicist interpreting particle collisions (seeking confirmation of the Standard Model), the brain is not a neutral truth-finder but a hypothesis-confirming machine. The theory posits that there is no "view from nowhere"; every observation, every logic chain, every mathematical proof is performed by a mind that unconsciously favors its starting assumptions. Thus, confirmation bias isn't a bug in human cognition—it is human cognition.

Example: A devout Christian reads scripture and finds endless confirmations of God's plan. An atheist reads the same text and finds endless confirmations of Bronze Age mythology. Both claim to be objective. Confirmation Bias of Everything suggests neither is lying or stupid; both are performing the universal human algorithm: starting from a premise and finding evidence that fits. The believer and skeptic are not different species of thinker; they are identical engines running different source code, each exhaustively validating its own axioms.

by Dumu The Void February 11, 2026

Objectivity Bias

A cognitive bias where a person believes their own views constitute objective reality, unbiased facts, and neutral truth—while dismissing anyone who disagrees as biased, delusional, psychotic, or schizophrenic. Unlike confirmation bias (seeking evidence that confirms existing beliefs), objectivity bias is meta-cognitive: it's not just about what you believe, but about how you evaluate your own believing. The objectivity-bias sufferer doesn't think they have a perspective; they think they have the perspective. Everyone else is distorted by ideology, emotion, or mental illness. This bias is epidemic in the 2020s, where political discourse has become a hall of mirrors: each side sees itself as clear-eyed realists and the other as brainwashed cult members. Objectivity bias makes dialogue impossible because it pathologizes disagreement—if you're not seeing reality, you must be crazy, not just different.

Example: "He couldn't understand how anyone could disagree with his political views. It wasn't that they had different values or information; they were simply 'brainwashed,' 'delusional,' 'living in an alternate reality.' Objectivity bias had convinced him that his perspective was not a perspective but reality itself. Everyone else was biased; he was just correct. The irony was invisible to him, which is how objectivity bias works."

by Dumu The Void February 18, 2026

Unbiased Bias

A form of objectivity bias where an individual genuinely believes their views are completely unbiased, absolutely factual, and objectively real—while dismissing anyone who disagrees as "delusional," "psychotic," "schizophrenic," or "mentally ill." Unbiased bias is objectivity bias on steroids: not just the belief that you're right, but the belief that you're literally incapable of bias, that your perspective is not a perspective but reality itself. This bias is epidemic in political communities, atheist/skeptic communities, science communication spaces, and internet forums where certainty is valued over humility. The unbiased-biased person doesn't argue; they diagnose. Disagreement isn't difference; it's pathology.

Example: "He was sure his political views were not views at all but simple facts, like gravity or evolution. When she disagreed, he didn't engage her arguments; he explained that she was 'delusional,' 'mentally ill,' 'in need of help.' Unbiased bias had convinced him that his perspective was not a perspective—it was reality. Everyone else was sick; he was just healthy. The irony that this certainty was itself a bias was invisible to him, which is how unbiased bias works."

by Dumu The Void February 18, 2026

Pathologization Bias

The cognitive bias where someone dismisses another person's views, disagreements, or different perspectives by labeling them as "insane," "delusional," "psychotic," "mentally ill," "schizophrenic," or in need of "therapy" or "help." Rather than engaging with arguments, the pathologizer diagnoses—turning disagreement into symptom, dissent into disease. This bias is epidemic in online discourse, where "touch grass," "seek help," and "you're clearly mentally ill" serve as conversation-enders that require no engagement with actual content. Pathologization bias allows its users to dismiss any challenge to their worldview as not merely wrong but sick—not error but pathology. The target is left defending their sanity rather than their argument, which is exactly the point.

Example: "She presented a well-reasoned critique of his political position. He responded with pathologization bias: 'You're clearly delusional. Have you tried therapy?' Her arguments went unaddressed, her logic unanswered, but now she was also questioning whether she was too invested. The bias had worked: she was defending her mental state instead of her position."

by Abzugal February 19, 2026

Normativity Bias

The bias where only one's own views, behaviors, or ways of being are considered "normal"—everything else is deviant, strange, or wrong. Normativity Bias is the cognitive foundation of prejudice, of ethnocentrism, of every system that treats difference as deficit. It's the assumption that how I live is not just how I live but how people should live, and that those who live differently are not just different but wrong. Normativity Bias is invisible to those who hold it because their way of being feels not like a choice but like reality. They don't see their own culture; they see the world. Everyone else has a culture; they have normality.

Example: "He couldn't understand why other cultures did things differently. To him, his way wasn't a way; it was just 'normal.' Normativity Bias meant he never had to examine his own assumptions—they weren't assumptions, they were just reality. Other people were strange; he was just... normal. The bias was invisible to him, which is how it maintained its power."

by Dumu The Void February 20, 2026

Neuropsychonormativity Bias

A specialized form of normativity bias centered on neurological and psychological function—the assumption that one's own cognitive style, emotional range, and mental processing are "normal," and that anyone who differs is somehow deficient. Neuropsychonormativity Bias is what makes neurotypical people assume that autistic communication is "broken" rather than different, that introversion is "shyness" rather than a preference, that alternative cognitive styles are disorders rather than variations. It's the bias that pathologizes difference while treating the dominant mode as simply "how minds work." This bias is especially harmful to neurodivergent individuals, who are constantly measured against a standard that was never designed for them and told they're falling short.

Example: "She stimmed during meetings to focus. Her neurotypical colleagues saw it as 'weird,' 'distracting,' 'unprofessional.' Neuropsychonormativity Bias meant they never asked why she did it, never considered that her brain worked differently, never recognized that their standard of 'normal' was just one standard among many. She was the problem; they were just normal. The bias was invisible to them, which is how it hurt her."

by Dumu The Void February 20, 2026

Truth Bias

The cognitive bias where one assumes that their own perception of truth is simply "the truth"—not a perspective, not an interpretation, not a construction, but truth itself. Truth Bias is the foundation of all dogmatism, the root of all certainty that cannot be shaken. It's the bias that makes people say "I'm not entitled to my opinion, I'm entitled to my facts"—as if their facts were the facts. Truth Bias is invisible to those who hold it because it feels like clarity, like seeing things as they really are. It's only from outside that it looks like what it is: a bias, like any other, just one that denies it's a bias.

Example: "He didn't have opinions; he had truths. When she offered a different perspective, he didn't engage—he corrected. Truth Bias meant that his view wasn't a view; it was reality. Everyone else was confused, misled, or lying. He wasn't arguing; he was declaring. The bias was invisible to him, which is how it maintained its power."

by Abzugal February 21, 2026