I would call a judge who is favoring a side because they’re paying him “biased”, and not “mistaken” or any such thing. But it’s not a cognitive bias. The word “bias” has legitimate meanings other than what EY is saying, so it would have been clearer if the article used the term “cognitive bias” at least at the outset.
I would argue a corrupt judge only seems biased as biased people in my understanding are not aware of their underlying preferences. That also might be the common ground with a cognitive bias: you are never directly aware of its presence and can only deduce on it by analysis.
You are confusing two definitions for the same word. The judge is biased by one definition of “bias”, but not by the other definition as used in cognitive or statistical bias.
I would call a judge who is favoring a side because they’re paying him “biased”, and not “mistaken” or any such thing. But it’s not a cognitive bias. The word “bias” has legitimate meanings other than what EY is saying, so it would have been clearer if the article used the term “cognitive bias” at least at the outset.
I would argue a corrupt judge only seems biased as biased people in my understanding are not aware of their underlying preferences. That also might be the common ground with a cognitive bias: you are never directly aware of its presence and can only deduce on it by analysis.
You are confusing two definitions for the same word. The judge is biased by one definition of “bias”, but not by the other definition as used in cognitive or statistical bias.