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1Seydi Ali Reis — (1498 ndash; 1563) was an Ottoman admiral. He commanded the left wing of the Turkish fleet at the naval Battle of Preveza in 1538. He was later promoted to the rank of Commander of the Ottoman Indian Ocean Fleet, and as such, encountered the… …
2Confirmation bias — (also called confirmatory bias or myside bias) is a tendency for people to favor information that confirms their preconceptions or hypotheses regardless of whether the information is true.[Note 1][1] As a result, people gather evidence and recall …
3Factor analysis — is a statistical method used to describe variability among observed, correlated variables in terms of a potentially lower number of unobserved, uncorrelated variables called factors. In other words, it is possible, for example, that variations in …
4Structural equation modeling — (SEM) is a statistical technique for testing and estimating causal relations using a combination of statistical data and qualitative causal assumptions. This definition of SEM was articulated by the geneticist Sewall Wright (1921),[1] the… …
5Myers-Briggs Type Indicator — Carl Jung in 1910. Myers and Briggs extrapolated their MBTI theory from Jung s writings in his book Psychological Types. The Myers Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) assessment is a psychometric questionnaire designed to measure psychological… …
6Pluto — This article is about the dwarf planet. For other uses, see Pluto (disambiguation). Pluto   …
7Fées de Cottingley — Panneau (signpost) du village de Cottingley, faisant référence aux fées. Les fées de Cottingley, ou l’affaire des fées de Cottingley, fait référence à une célèbre série de cinq photographies prises au début du XXe siècle par Elsie Wright et …
8Charles Sanders Peirce —  B …
9Charles Peirce — Infobox Scientist name = Charles Peirce box width = image size = 200px caption = Charles Peirce birth date = September 10, 1839 birth place = Cambridge, Massachusetts death date = April 19, 1914 death place = residence = citizenship = nationality …
10Manfred Clynes — Background information Born August 14, 1925 (1925 08 14) (age 86) …
