Selection Bias
A bias that occurs when the sample chosen for a study or survey is not representative of the population being studied, affecting the validity of the results.
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Survivorship Bias
A cognitive bias that occurs when conclusions are drawn from a non-representative sample, focusing only on successful cases and ignoring failures.
Inductive Research
A research approach that starts with observations and develops broader generalizations or theories from them.
Behavioral Targeting
A marketing strategy that uses user behavior data to deliver personalized advertisements and content.
Destructive Action
An action in a user interface that, once performed, cannot be undone and typically involves deleting or removing content.
Response Bias
A tendency for respondents to answer questions in a manner that is not truthful or accurate, often influenced by social desirability or survey design.
Demand Forecasting
The process of predicting future customer demand using historical data and other information.
Bucket Sort
A sorting algorithm that distributes elements into a number of buckets, sorts each bucket individually, and then combines the buckets to get the sorted list.
Decision Tree
A tree-like model of decisions and their possible consequences, used in data mining and machine learning for both classification and regression tasks.