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About Delusion Definition – Delusions are fixed and firmly held beliefs that have no basis in reality. As a pathology, it is distinct from a…

Idée Fixe An idée fixe is a preoccupation of mind believed to be firmly resistant to any attempt to modify it, a fixation. The name…

Filter Bubble A filter bubble is an intellectual isolation that can occur when websites make use of algorithms to selectively assume the information a user…

False Consensus Effect The false consensus effect occurs when we overestimate the number of other people (or the extent to which other people) shares our…

Echo Chamber “Echo chamber” is a term widely used in today’s lexicon, that describes a situation where certain ideas, beliefs or data points are reinforced…

A sales forecast is a protrusion of reachable sales revenue, based on traditional sales data, analysis of market surveys and tendencies, and salespersons’ estimates. Sales forecasting…

Denialism Denialism is the employment of rhetorical tactics to give the appearance of argument or legitimate debate when in actuality there is none. In the…

Belief Perseverance Belief perseverance is a concept that highlights the tendency for people to hold their beliefs as true, even when there is ample evidence…

Apophenia Definition – Apophenia is the experience of seeing patterns or connections in random or meaningless data. It can be classed as a false alarm,…

About Confirmation Bias Confirmation bias, the tendency to process information by looking for, or interpreting, information that is consistent with one’s existing beliefs. It is…

Belief Bias The belief bias is to give value, weight, strength, and importance to an argument, not based on the argument being valid but based…

About Deductive Reasoning Deductive reasoning relies on a general statement or hypothesis (sometimes called a premise or standard) held to be true to reach a…