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Influencing outcomes based on expectations. Our predictions become self-fulfilling prophecies.
Creates educational inequities, biased research results, and explains how stereotypes perpetuate themselves.
This bias is so strong it affects scientific research - researchers often find results that match their hypotheses even when analyzing the same data.
"Statistically speaking, you're probably wrong about statistics. And about speaking, for that matter."