Limited evidence is enough to ignore all else and start the inference. Ego squeezes into the gap — how easy when it confirms preference. They see a structure around the thing they chose to believe. Defend it like scripture — ignore anything else they could perceive. Contradiction forces everything to black. The correlation hardens — and gets presented as fact. The brain assumes before you choose to assume. The bias already present — arriving like perfume. It usurps innocent until proven guilty quietly and subconsciously. Churchill was a hero — history will not say no. Won the war, and correlation made it so. Saviour of the age, the one history chose to know. It must be truth — the correlation tells us so. Let's not mention the sixty thousand cut to ribbons in Gallipoli. Oh... Good job they were mostly ANZACS. Selective truth means no conclusion, no worthwhile verdict. No other thought to restrict or conflict. Don't be like the sixty thousand correlated away, or face damnation. Their erasure is the moral cost for mistaking correlation for causation. Correlation can be damning for some. — UpsilonA Author's Note - “Correlation does not necessarily imply causation.” It's one of the most fundamental principles in science. It's also one of the most consistently ignored — by scientists, by institutions, and by all of us, every day. The brain assumes before we choose to assume. The ego fills the gap. The pattern becomes scripture. The selective truth delivers the verdict. Churchill won the war. He also designed Gallipoli. Both are data. Only one built the monument.
We choose what we want/are capable of processing. I do my best to not have bias but I know I do…