Rhyme-as-Reason Effect
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The rhyme-as-reason effect (or Eaton-Rosen phenomenon) is a cognitive bias where a saying or aphorism is judged as more accurate or truthful when it is rewritten to rhyme.
Cognitive Biases
/ Eaton-Rosen phenomenon
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The rhyme-as-reason effect (or Eaton-Rosen phenomenon) is a cognitive bias where a saying or aphorism is judged as more accurate or truthful when it is rewritten to rhyme.
Cognitive Biases
/ Eaton-Rosen phenomenon
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The fluency heuristic is a mental shortcut where the ease of processing information (fluency) is used as a proxy for its truth, value, or likelihood.
Cognitive Biases
/ Processing fluency
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Selection bias is the bias introduced by the selection of individuals, groups or data for analysis in such a way that proper randomization is not achieved.
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/ Sampling bias (related)