We are all prone to a cognitive bias known as the clustering illusion, in which we see patterns where none exists.

Teach them about cognitive bias.

Accordingly, a cognitive bias had been introduced unwittingly into science, by over-trusting the individual doctor or scientist's ability to see and state things objectively.

The advance of social science often depends on excluding cognitive bias, of which many forms are known.

The experimenters explained cognitive bias, and asked the subjects how it might have affected their judgment.