reasoning

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• Confirmation Bias
  The tendency to seek, interpret, and remember evidence in ways that favor existing beliefs, and how researchers test for it.
• Logical Fallacies
  Common errors in reasoning — formal and informal — with the standard catalogue and its caveats.
• Bayes' Theorem
  The rule for updating the probability of a hypothesis when new evidence arrives, relating prior and conditional probabilities.