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To: Alastair McIntosh who wrote (74400)	1/23/2017 6:52:42 AM
From: TimF	1 Recommendation Recommended By Brumar89 Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 86355

The type of bias I'm talking about is the bias in looking for things to adjust for. More mental effort is put towards adjusting for things that would show a larger change because that confirms what the people making the effort already think. The adjustments themselves can be completely legitimate, even important to make, but still give a distorted picture if they are selected in a biased way (which doesn't even require intentional conscious bias, let alone some vast conspiracy) Its not just mistakes that should balance out more than the adjustments have. Generally over the long run, adjustments for non-mistake changes shouldn't mostly all trend in one direction either.