Category Archives: Bias

The IKEA effect

Every time we create something whether it’s a child or piece of IKEA furniture there is a high chance that we overvalue it. We fall in love with it and become attached to it. The effort that we put into … Continue reading

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The file-drawer problem

If a set of experiments produces the result contrary to what a team of scientists needs to find they simply file it away and we will never hear about it. Historians of science call this bias the file-drawer problem. Wrong: … Continue reading

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