Cognitive Biases: Are internal logical fallacies that occur as systematic errors in thinking that appear when people process and interpret information in the world around them. The human brain uses heuristics, mental shortcuts, to make fast decisions without exhaustive analysis. These shortcuts often produce predictable misjudgments. A person feels or perceives something inaccurately. IEPRDF can be used to identify and correct both private and public Cognitive Biases which are often used as weapons of plausible deniability in modern public discourse by companies, fossils, political leaders, media figures, oligarchs, other power structures… Plausible deniability is a tactical framework designed to avoid accountability, manufacture doubt, shield narrative positions… from scrutiny and objectivity. Unlike true inquiry, which seeks verifiable reality, plausible deniability relies on ambiguity, selective evidence, non-falsifiable claims…to allow actors to hide, to retreat… whenever inconvenient facts surface.
The Scientific Method, “The Truth Method”, simplified and operationally defined, through the IEPRDF framework, serves as the direct counter-mechanism to manufactured deniability. By enforcing strict standards of expert verification, independence, empirical testing… the Truth Method exposes advocacy tricks and restores transparency to data evaluation…
50 of the Most Observed Cognitive Biases are presented in this PowerPoint document.