Comment by austin-cheney

People tend to preference their bias because they cannot execute more objectively and then frame that against a collection of logical fallacies and other nonsense as justifications and equivocations.

The inability to measure things results in a lot of really bad output often in preference for emotional comfort. This and cognitive conservatism are the most clearly identifiable criteria of poor cognitive performance by people who are in over their heads. I saw this at every employer when I wrote JavaScript for a living.

The inability to form assertion criteria means a person has absolutely no idea how to qualify a decision logically.

In most of these people tend to do Y at much greater cost because they cannot do X. The most common answer to this is anxiety and then people twist themselves into knots to somehow qualify that anxiety in a way that makes sense to themselves.