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| 8995933538 | lay theory | Cultural wisdom, past experience, expert opinion | 0 | |
| 8995941683 | confirmation bias | Tendency to be more responsive to evidence that confirms one's beliefs and less responsive to evidence that challenges one's beliefs | 1 | |
| 8995955709 | Selective Exposure | Biased search for supportive information | 2 | |
| 8996013802 | Biased Threshold | Confirming arguments = Takes less to convince you Require less consistent evidence to accept hypothesis than inconsistent information to reject a hypothesis | 3 | |
| 8996024030 | Alternative Hypotheses | The probability of that observation, given that the hypo is true, issubstantially larger than the probability of that observation given that the hypothesis is false | 4 | |
| 8996038499 | Barnum effect | so vague that it represents everyone | 5 | |
| 8996046003 | illusory covariation | a pattern that people believe they perceive in the data such that one variable predicts another | 6 | |
| 8996051240 | Illusory Correlation | Tendency to overestimate relationship between variables that are related only very slightly or not at all | 7 | |
| 8996125947 | Belief Perseverance | Tendency to continue endorsing a belief even when evidence has completely undermined it. | 8 |
