If being fascinated by quarrels is connotatively different from “bias”.
I think these things are different. A bias is a persistent error in your estimates, you can treat it as a mistake in reasoning. Being fascinated by X is an attention allocation issue—you may or may not think it’s good to spend your attention this way, but there are no estimates and no mistakes in reasoning are necessarily involved.
I think these things are different. A bias is a persistent error in your estimates, you can treat it as a mistake in reasoning. Being fascinated by X is an attention allocation issue—you may or may not think it’s good to spend your attention this way, but there are no estimates and no mistakes in reasoning are necessarily involved.
I’d rather keep the definition of “bias” tight.