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11Publication bias — is the tendency of researchers, editors, and pharmaceutical companies to handle the reporting of experimental results that are positive (i.e. showing a significant finding) differently from results that are negative (i.e. supporting the null… …
12Beyond Bias and Barriers — Beyond Bias and Barriers: Fulfilling the Potential of Women in Academic Science and Engineering (ISBN 0309100429) is a major report about the status of women in science from the United States National Academy of Sciences. Published in 2006, the… …
13The Bias Against Guns — infobox Book | name = The Bias Against Guns: Why Almost Everything You ve Heard About Gun Control Is Wrong orig title = translator = author = John Lott cover artist = country = United States language = English series = genre = Gun Control… …
14Congruence bias — is a type of cognitive bias similar to confirmation bias. Congruence bias occurs due to people s overreliance on direct testing of a given hypothesis, and a neglect of indirect testing. Examples Suppose that in an experiment, a subject is… …
15Non-response bias — occurs in statistical surveys if the answers of respondents differ from the potential answers of those who did not answer. Contents 1 Example 2 Test 3 Related terminology 4 See also …
16Negativity bias — is the name for a psychological phenomenon by which humans pay more attention to and give more weight to negative rather than positive experiences or other kinds of information. This shows up in a number of domains, including: When given a piece… …
17Ingroup bias — is the preferential treatment people give to whom they perceive to be members of their own groups. Experiments in psychology have shown that group members will award one another higher payoffs even when the group they share seems random and… …
18disconfirmation bias — n. The tendency to actively refute or discount evidence that challenges a belief. Example Citations: In other words, when we think we re reasoning, we may instead be rationalizing. Or to use an analogy offered by University of Virginia… …
19East Coast Bias — is an expression referring to the tendency for sports writers in the United States to give greater weight and credibility to teams on the East Coast of the United States.CausesNew York serves as a major media hub, and for many good reasons… …
20availability bias — noun an unrecognized tendency of decision makers to give preference to recent information, vivid images that evoke emotions, and specific acts and behaviors that they personally observed …
