T 6 Flashcards
1
Q
Daubert Criteria
A
Can I take it to court?
- Ability to empirically test theory or technique
- Peer review
- error rate
- standards or guidelines to theory or technique
- generally accepted by scientific community
2
Q
Why popular: 3 mains
A
- Media
- Expertise heuristic
- Barnum effect
3
Q
Why popular? Reasoning errors
A
- self-serving bias
- overconfidence
- fundamental attribution error
- hindsight bias
- illusory correlation
- confirmation bias
4
Q
Why popular? extras
A
- relying on anecdotes
- repetition of message that it works
- mistaking fiction for fact
- imitation and social contagion
- emphasis on correct predictions
