New findings suggest that the Moon's early magnetic field was quite different from what many theories predicted.
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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 ...
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When estimating a treatment effect from observational data, researchers encounter bias regardless of estimation methods. In this paper, we focus on a particular method of estimation called Balance ...
The incentive for cherry picking ⎯ the tendency of users to favor data quality over diversity ⎯ is that data quality is preserved over a greater number of model iterations, but this comes at the ...