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  2. Bias against left-handed people - Wikipedia

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    In Hungarian, the word for right is jobb, which also means 'better'. The word for left is bal, which also means 'bad'. In Estonian, the word pahem means both 'left' and 'worse' and parem means both 'right' and 'better'. In Turkish, the word for 'right' is sağ, which means 'alive'. The word for left is sol, which means 'discolor, die, ill'.

  3. Left–right confusion - Wikipedia

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    In other words, children may learn the terms for left and right without having developed a cognitive representation to allow for the accurate application of such spatial distinctions. Research seeks to explain the neural activity associated with leftright discrimination, attempting to identify differences in the encoding, consolidation, and ...

  4. List of religious slurs - Wikipedia

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    A word meaning people who left Islam, mainly critics of Islam. [130] Mushrik A person who doesn't believe in Tawhid (Islamic monotheism) and practices polytheism, worships idols, saints, ancestors or graves. Pagan A person who believes in a non-Abrahamic religion. Synonymous with heathen. [131] Savage

  5. The 'G-word': The slur you didn't know was a slur - AOL

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    Unsurprisingly, a lot of people don’t know that. Just a few weeks ago, Whoopi Goldberg issued an apology after she faced backlash for using a derivative of the slur — a word that means cheated ...

  6. List of cognitive biases - Wikipedia

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    The tendency to overestimate the amount that other people notice one's appearance or behavior. Stereotype bias or stereotypical bias Memory distorted towards stereotypes (e.g., racial or gender). Suffix effect: Diminishment of the recency effect because a sound item is appended to the list that the subject is not required to recall.

  7. Horseshoe theory - Wikipedia

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    Proponents of horseshoe theory argue that the far-left and the far-right are closer to each other than either is to the political center. In popular discourse, the horseshoe theory asserts that advocates of the far-left and the far-right, rather than being at opposite and opposing ends of a linear continuum of the political spectrum, closely resemble each other, analogous to the way that the ...

  8. List of English words with disputed usage - Wikipedia

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    A aggravate – Some have argued that this word should not be used in the sense of "to annoy" or "to oppress", but only to mean "to make worse". According to AHDI, the use of "aggravate" as "annoy" occurs in English as far back as the 17th century. In Latin, from which the word was borrowed, both meanings were used. Sixty-eight percent of AHD4's usage panel approves of its use in "It's the ...

  9. FACT CHECK: Is The UK Imprisoning People For Viewing Far ...

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    A post on X claims that citizens of the U.K. can face up to 15 years in prison for viewing “far-right” propaganda. Verdict: False The law is meant for those that view “terrorist propaganda ...