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Survivorship bias and the enduring appeal of bad ideas

Oct 09, 2018 | Category: Featured
Survivorship bias occurs when we draw conclusions only from examples which have passed some sort of selection criteria and systematically discount those which have not.During World War II, British bom...
#John Donlosky #survivorship bias #illusion of knowledge

Can we improve school interviews? Part 3: The interview lesson

May 11, 2017 | Category: psychology
In Part 1 of this series I reviewed some of the evidence on what makes for effective interviews, and in Part 2 I looked specifically at creating a less biased, more structured formal interview. In thi...
#lesson observation #halo effect #Interviews #familiarity effect #sunk cost #survivorship bias

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