Originally Posted by
PapaHotel6
.....................He developed confirmation bias and therefore rejected anything as false that threatened his predetermined view.
Quote: Confirmation Bias: bias that results from the tendency to process and analyze information in such a way that it supports one’s preexisting ideas and convictions:
Mahon had no pre-existing ideas or convictions when selected by the NZ government to preside over the Erebus Inquiry. Are you seriously suggesting Piggy Muldoon and Air NZ would have allowed that to occur.
The only conviction Mahon had was to see justice after hearing months of testimony (including the litany of lies), researching relevant data pertaining to white out and Antarctic operations from the U.S. Air Force and then presenting those logical and obvious findings from that Inquiry.
Thankfully, despite all the presumptions, assumptions (from experts who were not present in the cockpit), appeals to the High Court, Privy Council and a plethora of other amateur wannabe legal eagles having their two bobs worth, those findings of the Mahon Inquiry in the Erebus disaster, remain
final and official to this day.