**Ignoring evidence that contradicts your coherent view of a person or situation. A form of confirmation bias.** As we start learning about a subject (person, event, etc) we begin formalizing opinions about it immediately. Sort of like the how the first voice in a crowd has a disproportionate effect on the opinion eventually reached by that crowd - the first things you start to learn wind up taking precedence in your head over things you learn later. Looks like [[Confirmation Bias]] and contributes to the [[Wisdom of the Crowd Only Works with Independent Inputs|noise of the crowd]] (i.e. not wisdom of crowds). This is an effect of [[What You See is All There Is]] thinking. It is not objective truth. **** # More ## Source - [[Noise - A Flaw in Human Judgment]] ## Related - [[Confirmation Bias]] - [[Wisdom of the Crowd Only Works with Independent Inputs]]