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naïve realism
human tendency to believe that we see the world around us objectively, and that people who disagree with us must be uninformed, irrational, or biased
Child vehicular heat stroke deaths
phenomenon in which children are mistakenly left in vehicles
goof
A goof is a mistake. The term is also used in a number of specific senses: in cinema, it is an error or oversight during production that is visible in the released version of the film.
fudge factor
ad hoc element introduced into a calculation
Imagination inflation
Type of memory distortion
dead letter mail
mail item for which there is no valid delivery address
Abbe error
magnification of angular error over distance