Bias/heuristics

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Biases

an unfair,inaccurate, or prejudicial inclination for or against a person group,belief,or idea

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Heuristics

mental shortcuts that people use to make decisions,solve problems, and form judgements quickly

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selection Bias

the selection of individuals,groups,or data for analysis; proper randomization is not achieved

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Survivorship bias

Logical error of concentrating an entities that passed a selection process while over looking those who didn’t

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Optimism Bias

People believe they have more control over things than other

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Diffusion of responsibility

When people feel less responsible for taking action in a given situation because there are other people

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Base-rate fallacy

Tendency to ignore revelent statistical information in favor of case specific information

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Perceived invulnerability

An irrational belief that one is somehow charmed and exempt from liked threatening situations

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Availability heuristics

Making decisions based on easily recalle

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Just world thinking

Cognitive bias that suggests that good things happen to good people and bad things happen to bad people

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Simulation heuristics

A person imagines possible simulation or alternative outcome to events that he or she encounter

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Ultimate attribution error

A person is likely to make an internal attribution to an entire group instead of the individual in a group

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Fundamental attribution error

Peoples tendency to attribute others behaviors to internal factors rather than external causes

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