According to the Text, the Best Thing You Can Do

question 471

Multiple Choice

According to the text, the best thing you can do to test your ideas is to attempt to disprove them. But people don't often do this because of a phenomenon known as ___________.

• A)the belief bias
• B)the confirmation bias
• C)a mental set
• D)convergent thinking

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Definitions:

Regression Analysis

A set of statistical processes for estimating the relationships among variables.

Residual

The difference between an observed value and the value predicted by a model.

Multiple Regression Model

A statistical technique used to predict the value of a dependent variable based on the values of two or more independent variables.

Multiple Coefficient

Often refers to the multiple correlation coefficient in statistics, describing the strength and direction of a linear relationship between more than two variables.