Confirmation Bias

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    Problem Formulation/Theoretical Orientation: A Case Study

    Description The client is a 4-year old, Caucasian, female. She lives with her mother and they would be considered a low-income family. Her mother has a high school education and is employed as a cashier at a local department store. Various social services are engaged to help this family meet their financial needs such as the Department of Health and Social Services, Medicaid, the welfare program and more. My client is also involved in occupational therapy to help address her behavioral issues.

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    Ob Key Lessons

    Leadership • The logic of rule-following - Interpret situation - Make sense of one’s role - Follow the rules or norms • Organizational culture plays a significant role in shaping the behaviors of individuals or groups • Organizational culture is a widely shared pattern of beliefs, expectations, and norms in an organization • Like an iceberg - Observable artifacts - Espoused Values - Underlying Assumptions • Managers must design effect control systems • Culture is primary reason people

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    Hum/111 - How the Us Government Hacks the World

    How the U.S. Government Hacks the World "We know foreign countries and companies swipe our corporate secrets. Now our enemies are also seeking the ability to sabotage our power grid, our financial institutions and our air traffic control systems," President Obama, in his State of the Union Address in February. (MacLeod, 2013) At the same time, President Obama signed an executive order to protect our country’s infrastructure from cyberattacks, a very real and dangerous problem. Our own government

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    Why Is It Important To Clarify Question And Answer?

    things that are referred to, or employed, or relied upon, to demonstrate and determine some truth, fact or actuality (Garcia-Martinez, English 103). In this situation, there are many different types of evidence to consider such as, one’s opinion, confirmation by expertise or authority, personal experience, personal observation, witness or public testimony, and conjecture of quality and quantity. Interestingly, in the 1957 film adaptation of the popular play Twelve Angry Men, written by Reginald Rose

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    Susan Kelly's No Crueler Tyrannies

    The book No Crueler Tyrannies criticizes the approach of the psychologists towards the allegedly abused children, which implements ideas of nonexistent rape memories to falsely accuse the innocent family Amiraults. The psychologists and the social workers involved in this case prompted children to confess about incidents that were made up stories to please their parents, by using suggestibility to contribute to the day care sexual abuse hysteria that terrorized the United States in the 1980s. Susan

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    Art of Thinking Clearly by Rolf Dobelli

    VISIT CEMETERIES: Survivorship Bias 2 DOES HARVARD MAKE YOU SMARTER?: Swimmer’s Body Illusion 3 WHY YOU SEE SHAPES IN THE CLOUDS: Clustering Illusion 4 IF 50 MILLION PEOPLE SAY SOMETHING FOOLISH, IT IS STILL FOOLISH: Social Proof 5 WHY YOU SHOULD FORGET THE PAST: Sunk Cost Fallacy 6 DON’T ACCEPT FREE DRINKS: Reciprocity 7 BEWARE THE ‘SPECIAL CASE’: Confirmation Bias (Part 1) 8 MURDER YOUR DARLINGS: Confirmation Bias (Part 2) 9 DON’T BOW TO AUTHORITY: Authority Bias 10 LEAVE YOUR SUPERMODEL FRIENDS

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    Analyzing Persuasive Arguments

    before jumping to a conclusion and it helps us determine whether something is worth believing. In the next section, we consider three approaches that can help improve critical thinking. Accordingly, we will discuss weighing the evidence, identifying bias and slanted writing, and identifying fallacies in regards to analyzing arguments. Weighing evidence Our decisions to accept a proposition is usually dependent on how we evaluate the source of the information (Halpern, 2014). When the premises have

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    FDA 101 Medication Errors Summary

    In the article FDA 101: Medication Errors, a medication is any error that is preventable that may cause or lead to incorrect medication use or harm. MedWatch is the error reporting program where any physician, pharmacist, pharmacy technician, other medical personnel and the general public can voluntarily submit a medication adverse event or error. Since the year 2000, 95,000 reports of medication errors have been reported to MedWatch.1 The FDA has partnered with the U.S. Pharmacopeia and the Institute

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    Critical Thinking

    * Uninformed opinions—lead to make poor decisions; negatively impact society. Cognitive Development 1. Dualism * View something as either RIGHT or WRONG (Dualistic) * Most obvious when confront a conflict * Confirmation bias—seeking evidence that supports or contradicts your view * Higher stage of C.D when your thinking is being challenge by other views * Sophomoritis—disorientation and doubting all answers 2. Relativism * Reject dualistic world

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    Advanced Auditing Final Review Case Note

    Policy compliance * Costs capitalized to inventory * IPI’s accounting policies state that only the rental cost associated with production should be inventoried. * Revenue not recognized upon shipment 4. Bonus: * Owner’s bias * Criteria b) Number of Units @ $65/unit Validate the revenue in dollars as well as quantity * Shipping logs normalize them for what the customers really wanted * Select a sample of quantity shipping and compare them to POs

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