Base Rate Fallacy
A cognitive bias where people ignore general statistical information in favor of specific information.
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“statistical thinking”
Illusory Correlation
The perception of a relationship between two variables when no such relationship exists.
Survivorship Bias
A cognitive bias that occurs when conclusions are drawn from a non-representative sample, focusing only on successful cases and ignoring failures.
InfoVis
Information Visualization (InfoVis) is the study and practice of visual representations of abstract data to reinforce human cognition.