Golden Rule Bias

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Definition #

One of three named bias positions declared at Layer 0 (Declaration). The substitution of the operator’s own preference for market evidence, especially in Guest Experience design — designing around what the operator himself would want as a Guest.

Family #

Child of [The Decision Architecture]. Sibling bias type to confirmation bias and [Disruption Bias]; one of the three defendants [Bias Prosecution] is built to catch.

Why Behind the Thinking #

It feels like taste, or even empathy — but it operates as solipsism. The operator is reading himself and calling it the market. Real market evidence contradicts [Golden Rule Bias] constantly, because the Guest is not the operator and what the operator values is not what every Guest values. The operator who has not trained himself to see that contradiction keeps overriding market evidence with personal preference and calling it judgment. Named or unnamed, the substitution corrupts the evaluation the same way any other bias does — the fix is naming it at Declaration, before the evidence arrives.