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confounders
in a study all alternative explanationions for an outcome
availability heuristic
being convinved by what comes easily to mind
present/absent biased
we tend to not notice what is absent and easily notice what is present
confirmation bias
the tendency to look only at inforamtion that agrees with what we already believed
five reasons for biased reasoning
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
empirical journal article
report the results of a study done for the first time
review journal article
a summary of a bunch of published studies
meta analysis (technique)
combining the results of many studies and giving it an effect size (a number that summerises the size of the relationship analysed)
American psychological association (APA)
Abstract, introduction, method, results, discussion, refrences