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People tend to interpret new information in a way that will support what they already believe. This is called ________.


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Significance Level

A statistical threshold used to determine whether a hypothesis should be rejected, often denoted by alpha (α), representing the probability of rejecting a true null hypothesis.

Predicting Length

The act of forecasting or estimating the duration or size of an object or event based on data or models.

Life Expectancy

The average number of years an individual or population is expected to live, based on various demographic factors.

F-test Statistic

A value used in statistics to compare two variances and determine if they are significantly different, commonly used in the analysis of variance (ANOVA) tests.

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