Is the thing you’re trying to label the peculiar confirmation bias where people instead of interpreting evidence to confirm to what they prefer or would like to be true, only to what they believe to be true—even if from their perspective it is pessimistic?
Or are you looking for a label for “this is unpopular therefore it can’t win” as a specific kind of self-fulfilling prophecy? Like an inverted Keynesian beauty contest?
Is the thing you’re trying to label the peculiar confirmation bias where people instead of interpreting evidence to confirm to what they prefer or would like to be true, only to what they believe to be true—even if from their perspective it is pessimistic?
Or are you looking for a label for “this is unpopular therefore it can’t win” as a specific kind of self-fulfilling prophecy? Like an inverted Keynesian beauty contest?