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  2. Confidant - Wikipedia

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    The confidant (/ ˈ k ɒ n f ɪ d æ n t / or / ˌ k ɒ n f ɪ ˈ d ɑː n t /; feminine: confidante, same pronunciation) is a character in a story whom a protagonist confides in and trusts. . Confidants may be other principal characters, characters who command trust by virtue of their position such as doctors or other authority figures, or anonymous confidants with no separate role in the n

  3. Law of truly large numbers - Wikipedia

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    If the number of trials were increased to 10,000, the probability of it happening at least once in 10,000 trials rises to ( 1 − 0.999 10000 ≈ 0.99995, or ) 99.995%. In other words, a highly unlikely event, given enough independent trials with some fixed number of draws per trial, is even more likely to occur.

  4. Guess 2/3 of the average - Wikipedia

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    The mean number chosen when playing the "guess 2/3 of the average" game four consecutive rounds. Grosskopf and Nagel's investigation also revealed that most players do not choose 0 the first time they play this game. Instead, they realise that 0 is the Nash Equilibrium after some repetitions. [14]

  5. Cognitive miser - Wikipedia

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    In other words, this theory suggests that humans are, in fact, both naive scientists and cognitive misers. [ 9 ] [ page needed ] In this sense people are strategic instead of passively choosing the most effortless shortcuts when they allocate their cognitive efforts, and therefore they can decide to be naïve scientists or cognitive misers ...

  6. Non-numerical words for quantities - Wikipedia

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    The English language has a number of words that denote specific or approximate quantities that are themselves not numbers. [1] Along with numerals, and special-purpose words like some, any, much, more, every, and all, they are quantifiers. Quantifiers are a kind of determiner and occur in many constructions with other determiners, like articles ...

  7. Dunbar's number - Wikipedia

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    Dunbar's number has become of interest in anthropology, evolutionary psychology, [12] statistics, and business management.For example, developers of social software are interested in it, as they need to know the size of social networks their software needs to take into account; and in the modern military, operational psychologists seek such data to support or refute policies related to ...

  8. Bootstrapping (statistics) - Wikipedia

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    If denotes the number times element i is included in a given bootstrap sample, then each is distributed as a binomial distribution with n trials and mean 1, but is not independent of for . The Poisson bootstrap instead draws samples assuming all W i {\displaystyle W_{i}} 's are independently and identically distributed as Poisson variables with ...

  9. Relevance feedback - Wikipedia

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    The idea behind relevance feedback is to take the results that are initially returned from a given query, to gather user feedback, and to use information about whether or not those results are relevant to perform a new query. We can usefully distinguish between three types of feedback: explicit feedback, implicit feedback, and blind or "pseudo ...