The Confirmation Bias Makes What Prediction About Human Behavior

question 30

Multiple Choice

The confirmation bias makes what prediction about human behavior?

• A) People will seek out supporting evidence for their beliefs.
• B) People judge the probability of an event by how it is framed.
• C) People will prefer sure wins over gambles.
• D) People will prefer gambles over sure losses.

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Definitions:

Confidence Interval

A spectrum of numerical figures, from sample statistics, judged to potentially include the value of an unknown population attributive.

P-value

A statistical measure that helps to determine the significance of results obtained in hypothesis testing, indicating the probability of observing the results if the null hypothesis were true.

P-value

The probability of observing a statistic at least as extreme as the one observed, under the assumption the null hypothesis is true.

P-value

A statistical measure that helps researchers determine the significance of their experimental results, indicating the probability of observing the results by chance.