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  2. Self-serving bias - Wikipedia

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    For example, a student who attributes earning a good grade on an exam to their own intelligence and preparation but attributes earning a poor grade to the teacher's poor teaching ability or unfair test questions might be exhibiting a self-serving bias.

  3. List of bad luck signs - Wikipedia

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    Bad luck is an unpredictable outcome that is unfortunate. This is a list of signs believed to bring bad luck according to superstitions .

  4. Faulty generalization - Wikipedia

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    A faulty generalization is an informal fallacy wherein a conclusion is drawn about all or many instances of a phenomenon on the basis of one or a few instances of that phenomenon. It is similar to a proof by example in mathematics. [1] It is an example of jumping to conclusions. [2] For example, one may generalize about all people or all ...

  5. Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Hard Luck - Wikipedia

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    Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Hard Luck is a children's novel written by Jeff Kinney and the eighth book in the Diary of a Wimpy Kid series. [2] [3] It was released on November 5, 2013. [1] In this book, Greg's best friend Rowley ditches him, and Greg struggles to make new friends. On Easter, he finds a Magic 8 Ball and attempts to change his luck by using it to make decisions for him and cheat at ...

  6. Confirmation bias - Wikipedia

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    They were shown apparently contradictory pairs of statements, ... Highly self-monitoring students, ... in this example, instances of both pain and bad weather.

  7. Unintended consequences - Wikipedia

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    Unintended consequences can be grouped into three types: Unexpected benefit: A positive unexpected benefit (also referred to as luck, serendipity, or a windfall ). Unexpected drawback: An unexpected detriment occurring in addition to the desired effect of the policy (e.g., while irrigation schemes provide people with water for agriculture, they can increase waterborne diseases that have ...

  8. Bad Luck and Trouble - Wikipedia

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    Bad Luck and Trouble is the eleventh book in the Jack Reacher series written by Lee Child. [1] [2] It was published in 2007, and written in the third person.

  9. Gödel's incompleteness theorems - Wikipedia

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    Gödel's incompleteness theorems are two theorems of mathematical logic that are concerned with the limits of provability in formal axiomatic theories. These results, published by Kurt Gödel in 1931, are important both in mathematical logic and in the philosophy of mathematics.