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Psychology

Systematic Error

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Systematic error is often called 'bias' in research; it can make a study's results consistently wrong, even if the sample size is enormous.

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You step on a scale and it reads 5 kg too high every time you weigh yourself. You weigh yourself repeatedly but the extra 5 kg never goes away. Why can't you just average it out?