Sunday, September 27, 2020

Apex Fallacy

 This post from Andrew Gelman (well, the comments) led me to learn about the “apex fallacy” today:

https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2020/09/26/does-this-fallacy-have-a-name/


…which led me in turn to read about the “spotlight fallacy” and “toupee fallacy”:


https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Spotlight_fallacy

https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Toupee_fallacy



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