The Tendency to Give Too Much Emphasis to Personal Factors

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True/False

The tendency to give too much emphasis to personal factors when accounting for other people's actions is part of the fundamental attribution error.

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Definitions:

Sample Mean

The average of all the values in a sample, used as an estimate of the population mean.

Population Mean

The average value of all elements in a population, where the population represents the entire set of items or individuals being studied.

Ounces

A unit of weight typically used in the United States and the United Kingdom, equal to one-sixteenth of a pound.

Margin of Error

An expression of the amount of random sampling error in a survey's results, indicating a confidence interval within which the true population parameter is expected to lie.