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Publication Date: 1989
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Understanding Errors, Biases that Can Affect Journalists.
Stocking, S. Holly; Gross, Paget H.
Journalism Educator, v44 n1 p4-11 Spr 1989
Outlines some of the errors and biases in thinking that psychologists have documented in recent years, including the eyewitness fallacy, underutilization of statistics, confirmation bias, misperceptions of risk, sample errors and biases, and misunderstanding of regression. Argues that journalism educators need to bring these to the attention of students. (MS)
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Language: English
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