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  2. Illusory superiority - Wikipedia

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    Another explanation for how the better-than-average effect works is egocentrism. This is the idea that an individual places greater importance and significance on their own abilities, characteristics, and behaviors than those of others. Egocentrism is therefore a less overtly self-serving bias. According to egocentrism, individuals will ...

  3. Non-numerical words for quantities - Wikipedia

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    Along with numerals, and special-purpose words like some, any, much, more, every, and all, they are quantifiers. Quantifiers are a kind of determiner and occur in many constructions with other determiners, like articles: e.g., two dozen or more than a score. Scientific non-numerical quantities are represented as SI units.

  4. List of terms referring to an average person - Wikipedia

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    (Un) Gazier originally, a man who worked in gas transport; nowadays, it is a familiar way to say "Someone" (mostly for a man; this term is rare for women, and in such case, the correct word is the feminine form "Gazière"). [22] (Un) Quidam: someone whose identity is unknown or cannot be disclosed. [23] See also fr:wikt:Tartempion#Synonymes

  5. Economics terminology that differs from common usage

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    In any technical subject, words commonly used in everyday life acquire very specific technical meanings, and confusion can arise when someone is uncertain of the intended meaning of a word. This article explains the differences in meaning between some technical terms used in economics and the corresponding terms in everyday usage.

  6. Glossary of mathematical jargon - Wikipedia

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    When said of a set or a mathematical object whose main component is a set, it means that the cardinality of the set is less than . frequently In the context of limits, this is shorthand for arbitrarily large arguments and its relatives; as with eventually, the intended variant is implicit.

  7. Negativity bias - Wikipedia

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    The negativity bias, [1] also known as the negativity effect, is a cognitive bias that, even when positive or neutral things of equal intensity occur, things of a more negative nature (e.g. unpleasant thoughts, emotions, or social interactions; harmful/traumatic events) have a greater effect on one's psychological state and processes than neutral or positive things.

  8. Kaiser–Meyer–Olkin test - Wikipedia

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    In flamboyant fashion, Kaiser proposed that a KMO > 0.9 was marvelous, in the 0.80s, meritorious, in the 0.70s, middling, in the 0.60s, mediocre, in the 0.50s, miserable, and less than 0.5 would be unacceptable. [3] In general, KMO values between 0.8 and 1 indicate the sampling is adequate. KMO values less than 0.6 indicate the sampling is not ...

  9. Mediocre - Wikipedia

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    Mediocre (a term defined as "having no peculiar or outstanding features") or mediocrity may refer to: Mediocre (album) , a 2008 album by Ximena Sariñana "Mediocre" (composition) , a 1955 jazz composition by Bud Powell