Impartiality

When apparently just doesn’t cut it

‘ Impartiality I can’t spell’

by Unkown9293939 June 18, 2025

Impartiality Bias

The bias of believing that one's own judgments are impartial, free from bias, unaffected by interest or identity—while recognizing that others are biased. Impartiality Bias is the conviction that you are the exception, that you see things as they really are, that your judgments are pure. It's the bias of judges who think they're above politics, of journalists who think they're just reporting facts, of scientists who think they're just following evidence. Impartiality Bias makes its holders incapable of examining their own partiality, because they don't believe they have any. It's the bias that denies it's a bias, which is what makes it so powerful.

Example: "He presented his analysis as impartial, unbiased, just the facts. Impartiality Bias meant he never had to examine his assumptions, his interests, his position. His impartiality was invisible to him—not a claim to examine, just a fact about himself. Everyone else was biased; he was just impartial."

by Dumu The Void March 10, 2026

senatorial impartiality

adj. A somewhat magical quality once abundant in America but which, like the buffalo and entertaining broadcast TV, is now seldom seen.

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Unicorn horns and senatorial impartiality do not exist! And I am a bit suspicious of this Tooth Fairy.

by gnostic3 January 21, 2020

Inexperience or Impartiality

Pfft! Hahahahaha! Yeah I'm sure that's it! I'm sure it's of of those and not "Trying to do as much damage to Trump as possible as way of interfering with the election because she's a partisan hack!" That's couldn't possibly be it.

Hym "Yeah, no, it's probably her inexperience or impartiality. Totally. You sound like Gayve Jewben when he talks about Elon Musk. 'Is it that he's just so smart that everyone is jealous of him or is it that he's just so brave and is saving America? WhOoOo KnOwS!?' Ridiculous. You're fucking ridiculous."

by Hym Iam June 6, 2024

Bias of Impartiality

A cognitive and metacognitive bias where individuals or institutions claim to occupy a position of pure impartiality—above the fray, free from bias, beyond politics—while systematically favoring certain perspectives, interests, or outcomes. The Bias of Impartiality is the belief that one can be truly impartial, that such a position is possible, and that one occupies it. It ignores that all knowledge, all judgment, all observation comes from somewhere—from a body, a history, a culture, a set of interests. The claim to impartiality is itself a move in a power game: it positions the speaker as neutral and everyone else as biased, without ever examining the speaker's own position. Judges claim impartiality while embodying the law's history of exclusion. Journalists claim impartiality while framing stories within dominant narratives. Scientists claim impartiality while working within paradigms shaped by funding, culture, and power. The Bias of Impartiality is not that we fail to be impartial; it's that we think we can be.

"I'm just being impartial, looking at the facts objectively." The judge said this while wearing robes that symbolize centuries of legal tradition, in a courtroom built on land stolen from indigenous peoples, applying laws written by property owners to protect property. Bias of Impartiality: the belief that one can stand nowhere while standing firmly on somewhere. Impartiality is not a position; it's a claim of power."

by Dumu The Void March 8, 2026

importality

The act of becoming so important in ones own reality as to become imortal.

A-Dawgg & Lyndz have reached the very apex of IMPORTALITY.

by Dr. Lyndsy .BK & AdamO October 21, 2006

Impartialising

The act of splitting something that is whole into many different whole subparts.

I am impartialising my music releases into singles, EPs and albums.

by KEkdisone September 16, 2023