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Re:What Scientific Term or Concept Ought to be More Widely K... by michaelfeathers on Sunday January 01, 2017 @09:39PM (#13298693)
Confirmation bias. Once you start looking for confirmation bias you see it everywhere.
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Re:What Scientific Term or Concept Ought to be More Widely K... by SudoNhim on Monday January 02, 2017 @02:52AM (#13299681)
> Once you start looking for confirmation bias you see it everywhere.

Hah. I can't tell if you are joking, because it's true.

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Re:What Scientific Term or Concept Ought to be More Widely K... by michaelfeathers on Monday January 02, 2017 @08:45AM (#13301106)
http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/H/ha-ha-only-serious.html
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Re:What Scientific Term or Concept Ought to be More Widely K... by marviel on Monday January 02, 2017 @09:50AM (#13301387)
Found an Anki deck for memorizing biases, seems useful to share: https://ankiweb.net/shared/
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Re:What Scientific Term or Concept Ought to be More Widely K... by marviel on Monday January 02, 2017 @09:53AM (#13301405)
https://ankiweb.net/shared/info/970971960 (last link was broken, sorry)
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Re:What Scientific Term or Concept Ought to be More Widely K... by wtvanhest on Monday January 02, 2017 @02:20AM (#13299584)
I came here to say the same. Definitely the most important bias
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