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Confirmation bias

Confirmation bias
Tendency of people to favor information that confirms their beliefs or values Confirmation bias, also known as myside bias, is the tendency to search for, interpret, favor, and recall information in a way that confirms or supports one's prior beliefs or values.[1] People display this bias when they select information that supports their views, ignoring contrary information, or when they interpret ambiguous evidence as supporting their existing attitudes. The effect is strongest for desired outcomes, for emotionally charged issues, and for deeply entrenched beliefs. Confirmation bias is a broad construct covering a number of explanations. A series of psychological experiments in the 1960s suggested that people are biased toward confirming their existing beliefs. Flawed decisions due to confirmation bias have been found in political, organizational, financial and scientific contexts. Definition and context[edit] Confirmation bias (or confirmatory bias) has also been termed myside bias. Related:  Science, Environment

Nikon D7000 Review by Thom Hogan Time for the rubber to meet the road (okay, the photons to meet the electronics). Since so many things have changed internally from the D90 there must be some differences, right? You bet your sweet bippy there are. Battery Life New battery, new performance figures. Fortunately, good performance figures. The one drawback to the new battery system is that it isn't exactly a fast charging system. Writing to Card I'm still trying to get a full handle on card performance in the D7000. Raw shooters will not be terribly happy with the buffer size. Autofocus System Surprise, surprise. Mirror up, well, that's another story. Metering System Another surprise. I've noticed a bit of chatter on the net about "overexposure." The corollary is that if you pop up the flash for some fill, the D7000 seems to get that exposure just a little more on target than previous consumer cameras. However, all isn't perfect. White balance is decent to good, especially in mixed lighting. So let me say this: chillax.

Synchronicity Synchronicity is the occurrence of two or more events that appear to be meaningfully related but not causally related. Synchronicity holds that such events are "meaningful coincidences". The concept of synchronicity was first defined by Carl Jung, a Swiss psychiatrist, in the 1920s.[1] During his career, Jung furnished several slightly different definitions of it.[2] Jung variously defined synchronicity as an "acausal connecting (togetherness) principle," "meaningful coincidence," and "acausal parallelism." He introduced the concept as early as the 1920s but gave a full statement of it only in 1951 in an Eranos lecture.[3] In 1952, he published a paper "Synchronizität als ein Prinzip akausaler Zusammenhänge" (Synchronicity – An Acausal Connecting Principle)[4] in a volume which also contained a related study by the physicist and Nobel laureate Wolfgang Pauli.[5] In his book Synchronicity: An Acausal Connecting Principle, Jung wrote:[6] Description[edit] Examples[edit] Criticisms[edit]

Argumentum ad populum In argumentation theory, an argumentum ad populum (Latin for "argument to the people") is a fallacious argument that concludes that a proposition must be true because many or most people believe it, often concisely encapsulated as: "If many believe so, it is so." This type of argument is known by several names,[1] including appeal to the masses, appeal to belief, appeal to the majority, appeal to democracy, appeal to popularity, argument by consensus, consensus fallacy, authority of the many, bandwagon fallacy, vox populi,[2] and in Latin as argumentum ad numerum ("appeal to the number"), fickle crowd syndrome, and consensus gentium ("agreement of the clans"). It is also the basis of a number of social phenomena, including communal reinforcement and the bandwagon effect. The Chinese proverb "three men make a tiger" concerns the same idea. Evidence[edit] One could claim that smoking is a healthy pastime, since millions of people do it. Exceptions[edit] Language[edit] Reversals[edit]

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Juggling by numbers: How notation revealed new tricks 19 December 2012Last updated at 20:12 ET By Laura Gray BBC News The mathematical formula of juggling Juggling is usually associated with brightly coloured balls and clowning around, but it has more connections than you might think with the world of numbers. Colin Wright is a mathematician who in the 1980s helped develop a notation system for juggling while at Cambridge University. He was frustrated that there was no way to write down juggling moves. "There was a juggling move called Mills Mess and when I tried to write it down I couldn't. The system he helped devise became known as Siteswap. These sequences encoded the number of beats of each throw, which is related to their height and the hand to which the throw is made. Sequences of numbers are used to denote particular juggling moves also known as "Siteswap" The higher the ball is thrown, the bigger the number, so throwing a four means you are throwing the ball higher than a two. The numbers are then written into sequences. “Start Quote

Anchoring Anchoring or focalism is a cognitive bias that describes the common human tendency to rely too heavily on the first piece of information offered (the "anchor") when making decisions. During decision making, anchoring occurs when individuals use an initial piece of information to make subsequent judgments. Once an anchor is set, other judgments are made by adjusting away from that anchor, and there is a bias toward interpreting other information around the anchor. For example, the initial price offered for a used car sets the standard for the rest of the negotiations, so that prices lower than the initial price seem more reasonable even if they are still higher than what the car is really worth. Focusing effect[edit] The focusing effect (or focusing illusion) is a cognitive bias that occurs when people place too much importance on one aspect of an event, causing an error in accurately predicting the utility of a future outcome.[1] Anchoring and adjustment heuristic[edit] or reversed as .

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