Confirmation Bias
For instance, someone might believe that sign-up walls make for a bad product for a variety of philosophical reasons, but they justify this decision outwardly by pointing to some data from one product's blog about their A/B test on the subject.
That data is not the reason they decided to ditch sign-up walls. It's just the reason they're giving to others (and often, themselves) about why they made the decision. This behavior represents a sort of homage to science... while simultaneously violating its core principles.
— https://blog.andymatuschak.org/post/159340765257/exalting-data-missing-meaning ↗
- this is different to confirmation bias / positive bias - famous example of giving
2-4-6as a positive example and asking someone to find out the rule by providing more examples - almost everyone looks for positive examples confirming their idea (4-8-12for example), instead of looking for negative examples that could give more info (if2-4-5is also ok, then it changes what I think about a lot) - I think I'm not different here, relying on intuitions most of the time, but I should be more conscious in presenting them as intuitions, instead of looking for positive examples to scientifically confirm what I'm trying to say/do