Disruption Bias

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Definition #

One of three named bias positions declared at Layer 0 (Declaration). The overcorrection toward novelty — weighting the unconventional option regardless of whether the evidence supports it in the specific decision’s context.

Family #

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

Why Behind the Thinking #

The operator who has been burned by incrementalism, who has trained himself to see past the obvious play, weights novelty because he has learned the conventional answer is usually wrong — and reaches for the unconventional option without checking whether the evidence actually supports it here. This is the sophisticate’s trap: the same broken process as confirmation bias, running in the opposite direction, but the same mechanism — assumption overriding evidence. The prosecution standard does not care which way the bias points; it cares only whether the evidence was read honestly.