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Equation 18 · Part 1 · Cognitive Bias Was the Label; Attention Sink Is the Suspect

Symbol phi_sink

ϕsink\phi_{\mathrm{sink}}
ϕsink\phi_{\mathrm{sink}}

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Everything above is a case for treating the architectural account as at least as well supported as the psychological framing. It is not, on its own, a decisive discriminator, and this article’s one genuine contribution is naming and specifying the measurement that would be. Call it the sink-attributable fraction, ϕsink\phi_{\mathrm{sink}} , defined as

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