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Psychology

Same Words, Different Sound: The Framing Effect

The framing effect is a cognitive bias in which logically identical options lead to different choices depending on whether they are described as gains or losses. This article cover

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Information technology

Many Eyes Make Bugs Visible: Linus’s Law

Linus’s Law says that given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow. This piece covers its origin in Eric Raymond’s The Cathedral and the Bazaar, why many eyes help find bugs, the li

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Business administration

The Option That Changes Your Choice: The Decoy Effect

The decoy effect is when a deliberately less attractive option makes another product look better. This piece explains asymmetric dominance from Huber, Payne and Puto’s 1982 study,

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Physics

The Endless Jiggle: Brownian Motion

Why do tiny particles in water never stop jiggling? This article explains Brownian motion, first observed by Robert Brown, the principle Einstein uncovered behind it, Perrin's expe

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Library & information science

Picking Search Results Like Blueberries: Berrypicking

Berrypicking, named by Marcia J. Bates in 1989, is a model of search in which queries and interests evolve and useful information is gathered bit by bit—unlike classical retrieval