Dr. Christopher Haggarty-Weir, Author at Mostly Science

Cognitive Biases and “Doing Your Own Research”, Part 3 – Memory Errors and Biases

Dr. Christopher Haggarty-Weir April 30, 2013

Finally the third installment of my cognitive bias articles is finished. I must apologize for the delay I have been so busy learning cloning techniques for my new research and dealing with many students, that ...

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Cognitive Biases and “Doing Your Own Research”, Part 2 – The Social Biases

Dr. Christopher Haggarty-Weir March 9, 2013

These prejudices are exhibited by all of us at some point, so whilst their elimination is arguably not possible, we should still aim to reduce our social bias.

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Cognitive Biases and “Doing Your Own Research”, Part 1 – Decision Making, Belief and Behavioural Biases

Dr. Christopher Haggarty-Weir February 25, 2013

So after what seemed to be positive reception to my previous article on logical fallacies to look out for when doing your own research online, I wanted to follow up with another area that leads ...

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Logical fallacies and you: What you need to know when “doing your own research”

Dr. Christopher Haggarty-Weir February 6, 2013

The internet has allowed unprecedented access to information, which on the whole, has been a marvelous thing. Gone are the days when

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