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  2. Stereotype threat - Wikipedia

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    Steele and Aronson split students into three groups: stereotype-threat (in which the test was described as being "diagnostic of intellectual ability"), non-stereotype threat (in which the test was described as "a laboratory problem-solving task that was nondiagnostic of ability"), and a third condition (in which the test was again described as ...

  3. Predictably Irrational - Wikipedia

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    The author describes an experiment in which an objective math exam was administered to two groups of Asian-American women. Before taking the test, the women from the first group were asked questions regarding gender-related issues, whereas the second group had to answer questions about race-related issues.

  4. Paul Cohen - Wikipedia

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    An "enduring and powerful product" of Cohen's work on the continuum hypothesis, and one that has been used by "countless mathematicians" [16] is known as "forcing", and it is used to construct mathematical models to test a given hypothesis for truth or falsehood.

  5. Arrow's impossibility theorem - Wikipedia

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    A coalition is decisive if and only if it is decisive over all ordered pairs. Our goal is to prove that the decisive coalition contains only one voter, who controls the outcome—in other words, a dictator. The following proof is a simplification taken from Amartya Sen [22] and Ariel Rubinstein. [23] The simplified proof uses an additional concept:

  6. Power (statistics) - Wikipedia

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    Illustration of the power of a statistical test, for a two sided test, through the probability distribution of the test statistic under the null and alternative hypothesis. α is shown as the blue area , the probability of rejection under null, while the red area shows power, 1 − β , the probability of correctly rejecting under the alternative.

  7. Critical thinking - Wikipedia

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    Critical thinking is the process of analyzing available facts, evidence, observations, and arguments to make sound conclusions or informed choices. It involves recognizing underlying assumptions, providing justifications for ideas and actions, evaluating these justifications through comparisons with varying perspectives, and assessing their rationality and potential consequences. [1]

  8. Stevens's power law - Wikipedia

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    Critics of the power law also point out that the validity of the law is contingent on the measurement of perceived stimulus intensity that is employed in the relevant experiments. ( Luce 2002 ), under the condition that respondents' numerical distortion function and the psychophysical functions could be separated, formulated a behavioral ...

  9. Theology of Pope Benedict XVI - Wikipedia

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    Being Christian is not the result of an ethical choice or a lofty idea, but the encounter with an event, a person, which gives life a new horizon and a decisive direction. Saint John's Gospel describes that event in these words: "God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should … have eternal life" (3:16).