Lumifer comments on Open thread, 16-22 June 2014 - Less Wrong
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So I find that there's one place this frequently comes up detrimentally in real life: The advocate of something invariably has spent more time studying it than the opponent. This creates a (to my mind) unhealthy bias in some situations in the advocate's favor.