PSDA.16:6 - Bias-Annotation

School loyalty and novelty bias pull in opposite directions. Compare the strongest applicable incumbent and the smallest useful new proposal; do not protect either by choosing an easy example. A practice’s available expertise is a real constraint, but it is not evidence that other Methods lack value.

Publication and success-reporting bias can hide failed, unpublished or culturally distant uses. Preserve the source search boundary and distinguish reported applications from representative evidence. A corpus dominated by particular journals cannot establish the absence of a practice elsewhere.

Combination bias treats more techniques as richer support. Inspect the meaning and cost of the joins. Automation bias treats a change in software as either automatically new or automatically harmless; recover whether reusable actions and stops actually changed.