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-- H. L. Mencken, describing halo bias before it was named
I like the pithy description of halo bias. I don't like or agree with Mencken's non-nuanced view of idealists. it's sarcastically funny, like "a liberal is one who believes you can pick up a dog turd by the clean end", but being funny doesn't make it more true.
The point is that idealists suffer from a halo bias around their chosen ideal.