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• Zodiac Signs and Gambler’s Fallacy

  
  Don't Quit Your Day Job... — Authority: 579
  The Economist posted  a not-so-interesting graph relating a year’s stock market returns to its Chinese Zodiac sign. I would imagine that a random number generator making up returns for clusters of years since 1900 and ranking the outcomes would produce a similar outcome… but let’s play devil’s advocate and ...
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• The Fallacy Of The Fat Trap

  
  gothinking.net — Authority: 114
  After chance that the NY Times prefabricated open an article titled “The Fat Trap” terminal month, I feature it with flavour but was disappointed to encounter that it contained a specially perverse communication for grouping subjected to being overweight. It essentially declared that grouping in generalized ...
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• Optimism and false hope

  
  OUPblog — Authority: 525
  By Hanna Oldsman Editorial Assistant In Voltaire’s Candide , the title character wanders through a life of brutal executions and natural disasters and angry mobs, and yet believes that he lives in the best of all possible worlds. When I think of misguided optimism, I think of those who are disinclined to do ...
  2 weeks ago

• Sorry to Cramp Your Stimulus, But…

  
  Students For Liberty — Authority: 465
  When I read Paul Krugman’s latest defense of Keynesian economics a few days ago, I was shocked and amazed that even Krugman fans and devout Keynesians would swallow his latest strange and rambling defense of stimulus. It doesn’t take an economist to … Continue reading →
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• Logical Fallacies In The Addiction Debate: #5 Appeal To The Masses and #6 The Bandwagon Fallacy

  
  The Clean Slate Addiction Blog — Authority: 97
    Argumentum Ad Populum An Appeal To The Masses is one of the laziest, weak minded, and philosophically revealing fallacies one can engage in.  In short, this is the form of such an argument: Conclusion X is true because everyone (or a majority of people) believes it. That’s all there is to it.  It simply [...]
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• Frontiers of Design Science: Computational Irreducibility

  
  Metropolis POV — Authority: 531
  There is a poorly understood restriction at the heart of the way we design today: virtually all our plans are mathematically doomed to be “incomplete.” But in a seeming paradox, if we can understand this restriction better, we can learn to make much better designs. One good way to do that is to learn from new ...
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• Fallacy (USA) 2011 - Abhorrence (EP)

  
  Media-Club New Albums — Authority: 148
  2011 - Abhorrence (EP) Fallacy (USA) 5 tracks CD Album
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