Filtered Evidence

Filtered evidence is evidence that was selected for the purpose of proving (disproving) a hypothesis. Filtered evidence may be highly misleading, but still it can be useful, if considered with care.

Blog posts

• The Bottom Line
• What Evidence Filtered Evidence?
• Informers and Persuaders

See also

• Conservation of expected evidence
• Rational evidence, Standard of evidence, Adversarial process
• Epistemic hygiene
• Availability bias, Dangerous knowledge
• Dark arts, Arguments as soldiers, Rationalization
• Not technically a lie