When It Comes to Thinking Critically, People Tend to Apply

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Essay

When it comes to thinking critically, people tend to apply a double standard. Explain how confirmation bias is linked to this double standard.

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Definitions:

Random Variable

A variable whose numerical values stem from unpredictable phenomena.

Normally Distributed

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Starting Salaries

The initial amount of money that an employee earns annually when beginning a new job.

Standard Deviation

A system for evaluating the degree of dispersion or deviation among a collection of statistics.