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Cognitive biases are systematic patterns of deviation from norm and/or rationality in judgment. They are often studied in psychology, sociology and behavioral economics. [1] Although the reality of most of these biases is confirmed by reproducible research, [2] [3] there are often controversies about how to classify these biases or how to ...
Part of the 1977–78 North American winter. The Great Blizzard of 1978 was a historic winter storm that struck the Ohio Valley and Great Lakes regions of the United States as well as Southern Ontario in Canada from Wednesday, January 25 through Friday, January 27, 1978. It is often cited as one of the most severe blizzards in US history. [1]
Wet bias. Wet bias is the phenomenon whereby some weather forecasters report an overestimated and exaggerated probability of precipitation to increase the usefulness and actionability of their forecast. [1] [2] [3] The Weather Channel has been empirically shown, and has also admitted, to having a wet bias in the case of low probability of ...
A severe thunderstorm swept across Central Kentucky on Tuesday morning, leaving thousands without power and damage across Lexington. The National Weather Service has confirmed six EF-1 tornadoes ...
(Reuters) -Search teams on Sunday picked through wreckage left by tornado-spawning thunderstorms that swept the U.S. Southern Plains and Ozarks, killing at least 14 people and wrecking hundreds of ...
A stormy Memorial Day weekend across the nation ended with another risk of severe weather in the Northeast, where AccuWeather meteorologists correctly forecasted that storms packing damaging winds ...
Catatumbo means "House of Thunder" in the language of the Bari people. [2] It originates from a mass of storm clouds at an altitude of more than 1 km (0.6 mi), and occurs for 140 to 160 nights a year, nine hours per day, and with lightning flashes from 16 to 40 times per minute. [3] It occurs over and around Lake Maracaibo, typically over a bog ...
A pool of water is shot at night with the sounds of a storm, and frogs croaking break the stillness. An aspect of Abbas Kiarostami's artistry that eludes those unfamiliar with Persian poetry and that has therefore remained inaccessible to many is the way he turns poetic images into cinematic ones.