Editing Individual bias

'''Individual bias''' is a persistent [[point of view]] or limited list of such points of view that one applies ("parent", "academic", "professional", or etc.).

It is one of the origins of [[editorial bias]] but is usually rooted in a [[w:cognitive bias]] (one's "life" and the events of it), [[w:cultural bias]] and [[w:confirmation bias]] (one's "loyalty" to a group and its ideals) and also the [[w:infrastructural capital]] (one's "locality" and environment that affords one's daily actions, e.g. roads and stairs versus rivers and trees). 

It is not possible to simply lose one's bias.  But one can challenge it or ask it to be challenged, e.g. by entering an [[w:adversarial process]].  Making this a habit can be dangerous, as the individual's unique perspective is also the source of their '''creativity''' - which is itself a form of unique bias.

The idea of '''recreation''' can be taken to mean re-creation of one's [[individual capital]].  [[Methodological pluralism]] suggests that one must from time to time behave according to the opposite of rules one usually applies.  This is actually the principle behind some festivals, like Mardi Gras.

[[Groupthink]] is usually a function of failing to challenge biases, which just lets them be summed up to become a sort of group opinion, e.g. as in an [[echo chamber]].

[[Faction]]s are useful in part because they reinforce some explicit biases that everyone knows about (because the [[factionally defined]] terms make it pretty clear what this explicit [[basis for unity]] is), but also require the '''individual''' to make some compromises on their other biases to get along socially.  In other words, the [[instructional capital]] of the faction shapes [[individual capital]] and integrates it to help build [[social capital]].  One may well ask whether there is really any other way to do this.