Anchoring bias occurs when we rely heavily on the first piece of information we receive - called "the anchor" even when subsequent info becomes available.
Studies about nutrition, exercise outcomes, or surgical interventions are very susceptible to this type of bias. It can be minimized by usingblinding, which prevents participants and/or researchers from knowing who is in the control or treatment groups. If blinding is not possible, then using obje...
was only 1.12, but when the data were submitted to multiple regression analysis involving 10 (ten) potential confounders – an exercise that would daunt any expert in mathematical statistics – this odds ratio was increased to 1.39. Citing Butler, the European Working Group on Environmental Tobacco...
If you work hard day in and day out and always strive to put your best foot forward at anything you’re doing, you will probably be surprised to know that your brain…is lazy. On the other hand, if you’re familiar with the “exercise paradox” — the contradiction that despite increas...
This external person would evaluate, and take part in, the reflexive interrogation of the researcher as it might be easier for the external personal to point out ‘unthought categories’ that the researcher might not be aware of him or herself. This would help the researcher to exercise the ...
Second, that there are no “design effects”, i.e., answers to control statements are not affected by the inclusion of the sensitive statement. We test this statistically using the appropriate likelihood ratio test (Blair and Imai, 2012) and cannot reject the null hypothesis of “no design ...
First, the proposed accounting we gave participants in each vignette was intentionally designed to push the boundaries of generally accepted accounting practice. Second, participants’ general suspiciousness was heightened because: (1) before they responded to the questionnaire, participants were asked to...
” He opined that an aspiring doctor who couldn’t cope with microaggressions might find some of the other stresses attendant on medical practice overwhelming, and suggested that they might have made an inappropriate career choice. (He also proposed that I might give the troops a lecture on ...
negative stigmas. Wanting to enjoy holiday indulgences (or overindulgences) while maintaining a respectable reputation can lead an individual to censor their own participation in holiday “bad” behaviors, like overconsumption, or exaggerate their practice of “good” behaviors, like not gaining weight...
recruited to participate in the experiment via the Dutch Eating Behavior Questionnaire (DEBQ) scale, which is administered in a rapid serial visual presentation (RSVP) task. The results revealed that failed restrictive dieters had the lowest percentage of correct answers at the lag2 level, ...