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  2. Optical illusion - Wikipedia

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    Paradox illusions (or impossible object illusions) are generated by objects that are paradoxical or impossible, such as the Penrose triangle or impossible staircase seen, for example, in M. C. Escher's Ascending and Descending and Waterfall. The triangle is an illusion dependent on a cognitive misunderstanding that adjacent edges must join.

  3. List of cognitive biases - Wikipedia

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    Objectivity illusion, the phenomena where people tend to believe that they are more objective and unbiased than others. This bias can apply to itself – where people are able to see when others are affected by the objectivity illusion, but unable to see it in themselves. See also bias blind spot. [87]

  4. Illusion - Wikipedia

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    Other illusions occur due to biological sensory structures within the human body or conditions outside the body within one's physical environment. The term illusion refers to a specific form of sensory distortion. Unlike a hallucination, which is a distortion in the absence of a stimulus, an illusion describes a misinterpretation of a true ...

  5. List of optical illusions - Wikipedia

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    The Hering illusion (1861): When two straight and parallel lines are presented in front of radial background (like the spokes of a bicycle), the lines appear as if they were bowed outwards. Hollow-Face illusion: The Hollow-Face illusion is an optical illusion in which the perception of a concave mask of a face appears as a normal convex face.

  6. Objectivity (science) - Wikipedia

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    In science, objectivity refers to attempts to do higher quality research by eliminating personal biases (or prejudices), ... is an impossible "illusion, ...

  7. Explainer-What is USAID and why has it become a target for ...

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    U.S. President Donald Trump's administration is considering merging the U.S. international aid agency (USAID) into the State Department in a major revamp that would shrink its workforce and align ...

  8. The night the lights went out on the Super Bowl - AOL

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    The objective then became notifying a crowd of 70,000-plus that there was no reason to panic or evacuate. Someone scribbled a handwritten script and rushed it downstairs to public address ...

  9. Subjectivity and objectivity (philosophy) - Wikipedia

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    The root of the words subjectivity and objectivity are subject and object, philosophical terms that mean, respectively, an observer and a thing being observed.The word subjectivity comes from subject in a philosophical sense, meaning an individual who possesses unique conscious experiences, such as perspectives, feelings, beliefs, and desires, [1] [3] or who (consciously) acts upon or wields ...