Reasonable Doubt Flashcards
Reasonable doubt
The suspension of one’s acceptance of some statement of proposition, due to an absence of sufficient support for that statement.
Innumeracy meaning
It is the condition of someone who is very bad at calculating large numbers in fis of her own head.
The Nocebo Effect
It is a situation in which a patient develops side effects or symptoms that can occur with a drug or other therapy just because the patient believes they may occur.
Gambler’s fallacy
When people misjudge probabilities.
The Dunning-Kruger Effect
It is when people believe that they are more highly skilled than they really are.
Observer Bias
It is even after that person has been presented with good evidence that the belief is false.
Conspiracy theory
They are extraordinarily claims that the nature of the claim is outside your understanding of things. Extraordinary claims demand extraordinary evidence.
Mere Repetition Bias
It is that the intellectual environments dominated by post-truth, benefit from a psychological phenomena.
People believe in it because they have seen it or heard it many times, and perhaps seen or heard it from multiple sources.
Propaganda
It is a type of communication from a political organization, which is spread for the purpose of raising support for that organization’s causes and policies.
Disinformation
It is a type of propaganda. It also attempts to raise support for a political party or cause, but it tries to raise that support by Deliberately Spreading Falsehoods!!
Fake news
It is a false or misleading information presented as news.
Fake news features
- Excessive Simplicity
- Fear
- Absolutist moral assumptions
- Fictitious or misquoted sources
- Marketing techniques
- etc
Advertising and its features
The job of advertising is to promote something.
- Identification/Association
- Slogans
- Misleading Comparisons
- Weasel Words
- Puffery/Exaggerated Claims
