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Tag Archives: cherry-picking
Organic vs Conventional Food
This piece has also been published by the Genetic Literacy Project and the Fitness Reloaded blog. I spent over a decade of buying little else than organic food. During that whole time, I never justified my choice by claiming that non-organic vegetables were less nutritious … Continue reading
Posted in agriculture, health, nutrition, organic
Tagged cherry-picking, confirmation bias
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Am I Biased? Are You?
Bias is a mental heuristic, and it can be as useful as it is dangerous. How can we know if we are blinded by bias? Continue reading
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