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The specific cognitive distortion where one privileges academic, intellectual, or expert perspectives over all others, not because they've been tested and found superior, but simply because they originate from within the ivory tower. Ivory Bias operates when a professor's opinion is treated as more valuable than a practitioner's experience, when peer-reviewed publication is treated as the only legitimate form of knowledge, when credentialled expertise automatically outweighs lived experience, when "studying" something is considered superior to actually doing it. The bias lies in mistaking institutional position for epistemic privilege—assuming that being inside the ivory tower means seeing more clearly, when it might just mean seeing differently, or seeing less of what matters.
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