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The Most Remarkable Aspect of the 2000 Election Was the Even

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The most remarkable aspect of the 2000 election was the even division of the country it revealed.


Definitions:

Defensive Attribution

A cognitive bias that leads individuals to attribute more blame to victims of misfortune than is warranted, often to believe that such events would not happen to themselves.

Illusory Correlation

The perception of a relationship between two variables when no such relationship exists, often a result of cognitive biases.

Self-Serving Bias

The common tendency to attribute one's successes to personal characteristics and failures to external factors.

Very Smart

A term often used to describe individuals with high intellectual capabilities or talented in a particular area.

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