The status quo bias is a cognitive bias for the status quo; in other words, people tend not to change anavoid changing the established behavior or beliefs unless the incentivepressure to change is sufficiently compelling.strong.
The reversal test is a technique for recognizing fallacious counterarguments against change. If the counterargument states that the change of some parameter in one direction is undesirable, the reversal test is to check whether either the change of that parameter in the opposite direction (away from status quo) is desirable, or that there are strong reasons to expect that the current value of the parameter is (at least locally) the optimal one.
The status quo bias is a cognitive bias for the status quo; in other words, people tend not to change an established behavior unless the incentive to change is sufficiently compelling.