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Why All of Us Could Use a Lesson In ‘Thinking 101’

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How Does Negativity Bias Play Into Admissions?

There are personal, you know, impact of these negativity biases and other biases. But there's also systemic ones that I wanted and some of them relate to education. There was one example in your book that was really interesting to me about admissions committees for a college - how they interpret GPAs. Could you say a little bit more about how this negativity bias can play into a decision by a big institution on which college, which student to accept? Okay. That's good one. So here's how the experiment went and it was my own experiment.

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