job bias

  • 1JOB, BOOK OF — (named for its hero (Heb. אִיּוֹב), ancient South Arabian and Thamudic yʾb; Old Babylonian Ayyābum, Tell el Amarna tablet, no. 256, line 6, A ia ab; either from yʾb, to bear ill will or compounded of ay where? and ʾab (divine) father ), one of… …

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  • 2Job interview — Oakland, California. Hanging Around. The total time spent in actual interviews while hunting a job takes only a small part of the day; unwilling to go home these youths spend most of their day hanging around and talking with other job hunters.… …

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  • 3Confirmation 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 …

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  • 4Optimism bias — is the demonstrated systematic tendency for people to be overly optimistic about the outcome of planned actions. This includes over estimating the likelihood of positive events and under estimating the likelihood of negative events. Along with… …

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  • 5Choice-supportive bias — In cognitive science, choice supportive bias is the tendency to retroactively ascribe positive attributes to an option one has selected. It is a cognitive bias. What is remembered about a decision can be as important as the decision itself,… …

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  • 6Media bias in the United States — Journalism News · Writing style Ethics · Objectivity Values · …

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  • 7Sampling bias — In statistics, sampling bias is when a sample is collected in such a way that some members of the intended population are less likely to be included than others. It results in a biased sample, a non random sample[1] of a population (or non human… …

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  • 8Healthy user bias — The healthy user bias is a bias that can damage the validity of clinical trials testing the efficacy of particular therapies. Specifically, it is a selection bias: the kind of subjects that voluntarily enroll in a clinical trial and actually… …

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  • 9Susan Stanton — Infobox Person name = Susan Ashley Stanton image size = 150px caption = birth date = 1959 birth place = death date = death place = occupation = City Manager spouse = Donna Becker parents = children = Travis StantonSusan Ashley Stanton (born… …

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  • 10Robert Byrd — Senator Byrd redirects here. For other U.S. Senators named Byrd, see Harry F. Byrd (Virginia, 1933–1965) and Harry F. Byrd, Jr. (Virginia, 1965–1983). For other people named Robert Byrd, see Robert Byrd (disambiguation). Robert Byrd President pro …

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