Triple Blind Spot Bias

A profound, systemic ignorance where a field is blind to its cultural assumptions, its political embeddedness, and the limitations of its core methodology. This creates an impenetrable, self-referential system that mistakes its own internally consistent outputs for objective reality, aggressively dismissing outsider critique from all angles.

Example: Certain strands of behaviorist psychology in its heyday: blind to cognitive processes (methodological bias), blind to its role in social control (political bias), and blind to its culturally-specific definition of "behavior" (cultural bias). This triple blind spot bias made it a closed, totalizing system.

by Dumu The Void February 9, 2026