Perhaps you saw the headlines this weekend: “Sexting: Just About Everyone’s Doing It,” from Discovery News, or “Online survey finds 8 in 10 adults have engaged in sexting,” from CNN. Wow – that’s ...
Analyzing several major pathology AI models designed to diagnose cancer, the researchers found unequal performance in ...
LONDON, Nov. 11 (UPI) --Most research looking at how and why people sample information focuses on "confirmation bias," the idea that people self-select information that confirms what they already ...
The original definition of the word “bias,” when it entered the English language in the 16th century, was a diagonal line, and specifically one that cut across the warp or weft of a woven fabric. It ...
The way people make decisions often seems irrational. One explanation for this behavior is that they seek evidence that confirms what they already believe, a phenomenon called 'confirmation bias'. But ...
As part of our #TakeASample Science Club, Science Friday asked its Twitter audience a few simple survey questions, and they answered by the thousands. But do the data mean anything?