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  2. List of cognitive biases - Wikipedia

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    Egocentric bias is the tendency to rely too heavily on one's own perspective and/or have a different perception of oneself relative to others. [34] The following are forms of egocentric bias: Bias blind spot, the tendency to see oneself as less biased than other people, or to be able to identify more cognitive biases in others than in oneself. [35]

  3. Representativeness heuristic - Wikipedia

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    A concept proposed by Tversky and Kahneman provides an example of this bias in a problem about two hospitals of differing size. [25] Approximately 45 babies are born in the large hospital while 15 babies are born in the small hospital. Half (50%) of all babies born in general are boys. However, the percentage changes from 1 day to another.

  4. Representational harm - Wikipedia

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    Another prevalent example of representational harm is the possibility of stereotypes being encoded in word embeddings, which are trained using a wide range of text. These word embeddings are the representation of a word as an array of numbers in vector space , which allows an individual to calculate the relationships and similarities between ...

  5. Cognitive bias - Wikipedia

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    The Cognitive Bias Codex. A cognitive bias is a systematic pattern of deviation from norm or rationality in judgment. [1] Individuals create their own "subjective reality" from their perception of the input. An individual's construction of reality, not the objective input, may dictate their behavior in the world.

  6. Confirmation bias - Wikipedia

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    For example, confirmation bias produces systematic errors in scientific research based on inductive reasoning (the gradual accumulation of supportive evidence). Similarly, a police detective may identify a suspect early in an investigation, but then may only seek confirming rather than disconfirming evidence.

  7. Latina workers are forced to climb a ‘broken’ corporate ...

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    Thomas believes this unconscious bias likely stems from harmful stereotypes about Latinx people in general. About 74% of Latinas say they experience microaggressions at work, according to the report.

  8. Selection bias - Wikipedia

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    In this sense, errors occurring in the process of gathering the sample or cohort cause sampling bias, while errors in any process thereafter cause selection bias. Examples of sampling bias include self-selection, pre-screening of trial participants, discounting trial subjects/tests that did not run to completion and migration bias by excluding ...

  9. Media bias - Wikipedia

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    Corporate bias, when stories are selected or slanted to please corporate owners of media. [11] [12] Coverage bias [13] when media choose to report only negative news about one party or ideology [14] Decision-making bias, means that the motivation, frame of mind, or beliefs of the journalists will have an impact on their writing. It is generally ...