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This list of the most commonly challenged books in the United States refers to books sought to be removed or otherwise restricted from public access, typically from a library or a school curriculum. This list is primarily based on U.S. data gathered by the American Library Association 's Office for Intellectual Freedom (OIF), which gathers data ...
The list of confiscated books should not be confused with books on the "List of Media Harmful to Young Persons" (colloquially known as the "Index"). Books indexed by the Federal Department for Media Harmful to Young Persons are subject to strict restrictions and may only be offered and sold to adults. [133]
The Enemies of Books is a book on biblioclasm [1] and book preservation by the 19th-century bibliophile and book collector William Blades. The book was first published in 1880 and has been republished in different editions in 1881, 1888, [ 2 ] 1896, and 1902 and reproduced widely in electronic format in the 21st century.
List-length effect: A smaller percentage of items are remembered in a longer list, but as the length of the list increases, the absolute number of items remembered increases as well. [162] Memory inhibition: Being shown some items from a list makes it harder to retrieve the other items (e.g., Slamecka, 1968). Misinformation effect
A particular form of unconscious bias Gladwell discusses is psychological priming. He also discusses the implicit-association test, [1] designed to measure the strength of a person's subconscious associations/bias. Gladwell also mentions that sometimes having too much information can interfere with the accuracy of a judgment, or a doctor's ...
Print/export Download as PDF; Printable version; ... Help. Books about the concept of bias or specific examples of bias. Subcategories. This category has only the ...
In the book: the mentors of the tenth Hunger Games try, for the first time, sending food and water to their tributes via drone. In the movie: Call me crazy, but I think this is the biggest difference.
During the years, more than a hundred books with the Book of Lists in their title appeared. [14] In 2005, a Canadian edition of The Book of Lists was published and credited to David Wallechinsky, Amy Wallace, Ira Basen and Jane Farrow. The book contained a mixture of content from the original three volumes, mixed in with updated material, and ...