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  2. Trial and error - Wikipedia

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  3. Heuristic - Wikipedia

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    The most fundamental heuristic is trial and error, which can be used in everything from matching nuts and bolts to finding the values of variables in algebra problems. In mathematics, some common heuristics involve the use of visual representations, additional assumptions, forward/backward reasoning and simplification.

  4. Reversible error - Wikipedia

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    Therefore, reversible errors resulting from the violation of an individual's "substantial right(s)" must be considered on an individual basis. Examples of reversible errors. Reversible errors include, but are not limited to: Judge did not follow the law. seating a juror who has manifested impermissible bias to one party or the other,

  5. Edisonian approach - Wikipedia

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    Thomas Midgley (who held a PhD and was the inventor of tetraethyl lead and halogenated hydrocarbon refrigerants) said of trial and error, "the trick is to turn a wild goose chase into a fox hunt" (quoted in Hughes 2004).

  6. Law of effect - Wikipedia

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    The law of effect, or Thorndike's law, is a psychology principle advanced by Edward Thorndike in 1898 on the matter of behavioral conditioning (not then formulated as such) which states that "responses that produce a satisfying effect in a particular situation become more likely to occur again in that situation, and responses that produce a ...

  7. Trial & Error (TV series) - Wikipedia

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    Josh starts his first duties as Larry's lead defense attorney: investigating the bloody handprint found in Larry's house, where Margaret was found dead, with the help of a DNA expert whom Anne brings and who suffers from a type of OCD; and sending Dwayne to Roanoke, Virginia to retrieve the body of Larry's first wife, who was allegedly murdered in the same manner as was Margaret, in order to ...

  8. Fundamental error - Wikipedia

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    Fundamental errors are both plain errors and reversible errors. Fundamental errors are similar to substantial errors; however, the definition of a "substantial error" may differ slightly among the courts.

  9. Experiment (probability theory) - Wikipedia

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    In probability theory, an experiment or trial (see below) is any procedure that can be infinitely repeated and has a well-defined set of possible outcomes, known as the sample space. [1] An experiment is said to be random if it has more than one possible outcome, and deterministic if it has only one. A random experiment that has exactly two ...