62,734
edits
Changes
no edit summary
|-
| 1946 || || " In 1946, Berkson first illustrated the presence of a false correlation due to this last reason, which is known as Berkson's paradox and is one of the most famous paradox in probability and statistics."<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Batsidis |first1=Apostolos |last2=Tzavelas |first2=George |last3=Alexopoulos |first3=Panagiotis |title=Berkson's paradox and weighted distributions: An application to Alzheimer's disease |doi=10.1002/bimj.201900046 |url=https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/bimj.201900046}}</ref>
|-
| 1956 || || The term "{{w|Barnum effect}}" is coined by psychologist {{w|Paul Meehl}} in his essay ''Wanted – A Good Cookbook'', because he relates the vague personality descriptions used in certain "pseudo-successful" psychological tests to those given by showman {{w|P. T. Barnum}}.<ref name=Meehl1956>{{cite journal|last1=Meehl |first1=Paul E. |title=Wanted – A Good Cookbook |journal=American Psychologist |date=1956 |volume=11 |issue=6 |pages=263–272 |doi=10.1037/h0044164 |df= }}</ref><ref name="Dutton1988">{{cite journal|last1=Dutton|first1=D. L.|title=The cold reading technique|journal=Experientia|date=1988|volume=44|issue=4|pages=326–332|doi=10.1007/BF01961271|url=http://denisdutton.com/cold_reading.htm|language=en|pmid=3360083}}</ref>
|-
| 1960 || || English psychhologist Peter Wason first describes the {{w|confirmation bias}}.<ref>{{cite web |title=The Curious Case of Confirmation Bias |url=https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/seeing-what-others-dont/201905/the-curious-case-confirmation-bias |website=psychologytoday.com |accessdate=7 April 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Acks |first1=Alex |title=The Bubble of Confirmation Bias |url=https://books.google.com.ar/books?id=hPWCDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA9&dq=confirmation+bias%22+was+coined+by+English+psychologist+Peter+Wason&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiMnaen1dboAhVAIrkGHX4TAwEQ6AEIMTAB#v=onepage&q=confirmation%20bias%22%20was%20coined%20by%20English%20psychologist%20Peter%20Wason&f=false}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Myers |first1=David G. |title=Psychology |url=https://books.google.com.ar/books?id=OqZZAAAAYAAJ&q=confirmation+bias%22+was+coined+by+English+psychologist+Peter+Wason&dq=confirmation+bias%22+was+coined+by+English+psychologist+Peter+Wason&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiMnaen1dboAhVAIrkGHX4TAwEQ6AEISzAE}}</ref>
