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Covert Bias-Diagnostic Interview Protocol

Overview

A ten-question conversational protocol for covertly placing someone on the Three-Bias Diagnostic Framework (Survivorship, Confirmation, Overconfidence) map without ever naming survivorship, confirmation, or overconfidence bias to them directly. Delivered in a low-key, socialized tone within an otherwise ordinary conversation.

Documented techniques within the protocol:

• Scale questions pushed off neutral — e.g., a 1-100 question frames the midpoint (50) explicitly as "equal both," a wording choice designed to discourage the neutral answer and force a more decisive signal.
• Negative dissociation framing — a sensitive question (e.g., "how do you react to losing an argument or a sale?") is never asked directly. It's prefaced with reassurance such as "I'm glad you and I are talking," which lowers defensiveness and covertly extracts the same information via a softer, indirect route.
• Example prompt type: asking for an instance where the person's initial judgment of someone or something was proven totally wrong — used to surface survivorship/confirmation blind spots through a story rather than a direct self-assessment.

Why it matters

Claimed to be teachable "down to an 11-year-old's level of understanding" — positioned as simple in mechanism even though marketed as an elite, high-value insight. The pattern generalizes: indirect, story-eliciting, or reassurance-prefaced questions extract self-assessment data that a direct question would provoke defensiveness against.

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