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confounders

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in a study all alternative explanationions for an outcome

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availability heuristic

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being convinved by what comes easily to mind

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present/absent biased

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we tend to not notice what is absent and easily notice what is present

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confirmation bias

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the tendency to look only at inforamtion that agrees with what we already believed

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five reasons for biased reasoning

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being swayed bya good story
being convinced by what comes easily to mind
not thinking about ehat we cant see
focusing on the evidence that most appeals to us
bias on bias (blind spot) tend to belive we are less bias then others

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empirical journal article

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report the results of a study done for the first time

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review journal article

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a summary of a bunch of published studies

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meta analysis (technique)

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combining the results of many studies and giving it an effect size (a number that summerises the size of the relationship analysed)

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American psychological association (APA)

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Abstract, introduction, method, results, discussion, refrences

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