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  2. Normalcy bias - Wikipedia

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    Normalcy bias can cause people to drastically underestimate the effects of the disaster. Therefore, people think that they will be safe even though information from the radio, television, or neighbors gives them reasons to believe there is a risk. The normalcy bias causes a cognitive dissonance that people then must work to eliminate. Some ...

  3. Normality (behavior) - Wikipedia

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    Normality is a behavior that can be normal for an individual (intrapersonal normality) when it is consistent with the most common behavior for that person. Normal is also used to describe individual behavior that conforms to the most common behavior in society (known as conformity).

  4. Normality - Wikipedia

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    Normality tests, used to determine if a data set is well-modeled by a normal distribution; Science. Normality (behavior), the property of conforming to a norm;

  5. Normal subgroup - Wikipedia

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    If is a normal subgroup, we can define a multiplication on cosets as follows: ():= This relation defines a mapping / / /. To show that this mapping is well-defined, one needs to prove that the choice of representative elements a 1 , a 2 {\displaystyle a_{1},a_{2}} does not affect the result.

  6. Return to normalcy - Wikipedia

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    According to some historians, normalcy was an "obscure math term" before its use by Harding [6] during the campaign. Harding, a newspaper editor, addressed the issue of the word's origin, claiming that normalcy but not normality appeared in his dictionary. [7]

  7. Normal extension - Wikipedia

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    Furthermore, up to isomorphism there is only one such extension that is minimal, that is, the only subfield of M that contains L and that is a normal extension of K is M itself. This extension is called the normal closure of the extension L of K. If L is a finite extension of K, then its normal closure is also a finite extension.

  8. Normal science - Wikipedia

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    Kuhn stressed that historically, the route to normal science could be a difficult one. Prior to the formation of a shared paradigm or research consensus, would-be scientists were reduced to the accumulation of random facts and unverified observations, in the manner recorded by Pliny the Elder or Francis Bacon, [4] while simultaneously beginning the foundations of their field from scratch ...

  9. Normal - Wikipedia

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    Normal polytopes, in polyhedral geometry and computational commutative algebra; Normal ring, a reduced ring whose localizations at prime ideals are integrally closed domains; Normal scheme, a scheme whose local rings are normal domains; Normal sequence (disambiguation), either a normal function or a representation of a normal number