Good point. “Bias” is the wrong word. The proposed reasoning is the same—the further away from the opinions of others that I know person X to be, the more I can dismiss the attitude of random person R towards X as being based on that distance.
Good point. “Bias” is the wrong word. The proposed reasoning is the same—the further away from the opinions of others that I know person X to be, the more I can dismiss the attitude of random person R towards X as being based on that distance.