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Present bias is the tendency to settle for a smaller present reward rather than wait for a larger future reward, in a trade-off situation. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It describes the trend of overvaluing immediate rewards, while putting less worth in long-term consequences. [ 3 ]
(compare optimism bias) Present bias: The tendency of people to give stronger weight to payoffs that are closer to the present time when considering trade-offs between two future moments. [110] Plant blindness: The tendency to ignore plants in their environment and a failure to recognize and appreciate the utility of plants to life on earth. [111]
Le grand docteur sophiste, 1886 illustration of Gargantua by Albert Robida, expressing mockery of his casuist education. Casuistry (/ ˈ k æ zj u ɪ s t r i / KAZ-ew-iss-tree) is a process of reasoning that seeks to resolve moral problems by extracting or extending abstract rules from a particular case, and reapplying those rules to new instances. [1]
In Canadian law, a reasonable apprehension of bias is a legal standard for disqualifying judges and administrative decision-makers for bias. Bias of the decision-maker can be real or merely perceived. The test was first stated in Committee for Justice and Liberty v. Canada (National Energy Board), [1978] 1 S.C.R. 369:
An FBI special agent is facing charges of rape and assault involving two women in Maryland, according to police in Montgomery County, two years after a state jury acquitted him after he shot and ...
The wife of a prominent Georgia attorney has been convicted of killing her husband and burning his body. On Thursday, Dec. 5, Georgia Superior Court Judge David L. Cannon Jr. sentenced Farris, 64 ...
Kahneman, Sibony and Sunstein use a shooting range as an analogy to illustrate noise and statistical bias, and how cognitive bias affect them both. Fig. 1 is an adaptation of the same illustration in the book, comparing how noise and bias affect the accuracies of judgments made by a team of judges. (The original illustration comes from an ...
Back in 2016 — an eon ago in college football terms — Alabama and Clemson squared off in the title game of the second College Football Playoff.