John’s Reviews > The Organized Mind: Thinking Straight in the Age of Information Overload > Status Update

we encode new information
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enable a sort of querying & verification goal not to see if the number you've encountered is exactly correct, but only to see if the number is approximately correct-that is, close enough to be plausible
set boundary conditions a set of the highest & lowest number possibly be.
boundary conditions scientist would describe this as your 90% confidence interval-that you are 90% sure that it should fall in-between

an expert knows how to weight different sources of information & to resolve such apparent contradictions.
when only a certain subset of all possible experimental participants walk through the lab door, the sampling bias is called preselection effect.

Multitasking
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Paper consumption
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internals

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locus of control
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locus of control

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ethical decision making

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prospect theory & expected utility

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