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Any option you choose is biased relative to the option(s) you didn’t choose. There doesn’t have to be an objective baseline.

Someone might say they are biased towards the color orange and that means they have a preference relative to all the other colors. But there is no baseline color.



The baseline is a neutral stance on orange. The option isn't biased, a choice isn't biased. The chooser is.




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