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... biased coding " literature is the set or primacy effect . Once people have formed a strong theory or expectation of what the data will look like , they sometimes fail to examine the particulars of the case . For example , Jones , Rock ...
... biased coding " literature is the set or primacy effect . Once people have formed a strong theory or expectation of what the data will look like , they sometimes fail to examine the particulars of the case . For example , Jones , Rock ...
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... biased selection . People's failure to appreciate sampling theory will not leave them defenseless against all biased data samples . Indeed , most people are armed with a variety of scripts , schemas , theories , and maxims that make ...
... biased selection . People's failure to appreciate sampling theory will not leave them defenseless against all biased data samples . Indeed , most people are armed with a variety of scripts , schemas , theories , and maxims that make ...
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... biased by his nervousness and uncertainty about the in- teraction . Unfortunately , as we noted earlier , most of these same professors are not similarly experienced in dealing with job candidates . They do not give the same benefit of ...
... biased by his nervousness and uncertainty about the in- teraction . Unfortunately , as we noted earlier , most of these same professors are not similarly experienced in dealing with job candidates . They do not give the same benefit of ...
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inferential problems and the formal scientific | 8 |
summary | 15 |
the representativeness heuristic | 24 |
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