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  2. Confirmation bias - Wikipedia

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    The social process of peer review aims to mitigate the effect of individual scientists' biases, even though the peer review process itself may be susceptible to such biases [99] [100] [93] [101] [102] Confirmation bias may thus be especially harmful to objective evaluations regarding nonconforming results since biased individuals may regard ...

  3. Frankfurt cases - Wikipedia

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    Frankfurt's examples involve agents who are intuitively responsible for their behavior even though they lack the freedom to act otherwise. Here is a typical case: [6] Suppose someone (Black, let us say) wants Jones to perform a certain action.

  4. Subjective constancy - Wikipedia

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    Subjective constancy or perceptual constancy is the perception of an object or quality as constant even though our sensation of the object changes. [1] While the physical characteristics of an object may not change, in an attempt to deal with the external world, the human perceptual system has mechanisms that adjust to the stimulus.

  5. Highest and best use - Wikipedia

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    Even if the house is not razed and the site sold as a commercial lot, the highest and best use is the commercial lot use. The market value of the property is driven by this hypothetical conversion, even if it never takes place, due to the utility that this potential conversion would bring to a purchaser.

  6. Illusory truth effect - Wikipedia

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    For example, when participants encountered on multiple occasions the statement "A sari is the name of the short plaid skirt worn by Scots," some of them were likely to come to believe it was true, even though these same people were able to correctly answer the question "What is the name of the short pleated skirt worn by Scots?"

  7. Necessity and sufficiency - Wikipedia

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    Example 2 For the whole numbers greater than two, being odd is necessary to being prime, since two is the only whole number that is both even and prime. Example 3 Consider thunder, the sound caused by lightning. One says that thunder is necessary for lightning, since lightning never occurs without thunder. Whenever there is lightning, there is ...

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    For example, say you deposited $10,000 in a high-yield savings account with a 3% APY that compounds annually. At the end of a year, you’d have $10,300.00 in your account. ... Even though the ...

  9. List of linguistic example sentences - Wikipedia

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    One example: Chinese: 妈妈骑马马慢妈妈骂马; pinyin: māma qí mǎ, mǎ màn, māma mà mǎ; lit. 'Mother is riding a horse... the horse is slow... mother scolds the horse'. [37] Lion-Eating Poet in the Stone Den: poem of 92 characters, all with the sound shi (in four different tones) when read in Modern Standard Mandarin