cancelling out explanation

📖 Definitions

"bias and error are more likely to be cancelled out in a group setting" (McBrayer 2024, 615).

💡 Examples

• "Every individual has her own bias. You are more likely to overestimate distance. I’m more likely to underestimate it. But if we average our guesses together, our biases will cancel out." (McBrayer 2024, 615)

🔗 Relations

• depends on: epistemic diversity
• part of: feminist empiricism

📚 References

• McBrayer, Justin P. 2024. “The Epistemic Benefits of Ideological Diversity.” Acta Analytica 39:611–26. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12136-023-00582-z.

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