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confirmation bias hindsight bias halo effect survivorship bias Dunning-Kruger effect apophenia doctrine of the maturity of the chances pareidolia scientific apophenia perception institutionalized bias bounded rationality analogy Mill’s methods deduction practical reason induction rationality