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Can you outsmart the apples and oranges fallacy? - Elizabeth Cox
264 views / 0 likes - addedDig into the false analogy fallacy, which assumes that because two things share a characteristic, they must be alike in other respects.--Its 1997. The United States Senate has called a hearing about global warming. Some expert witnesses point out that pas
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Can you outsmart the college admissions fallacy? - Elizabeth Cox
173 views / 0 likes - addedExplore the circular reasoning fallacy, which occurs when the end of an argument comes back to the start without having proven itself.--Its 1990. A prospective student has filed a complaint about Virginia Military institutes admissions policy that exclude
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Can you outsmart the slippery slope fallacy? - Elizabeth Cox
483 views / 0 likes - addedDig into the slippery slope fallacy, which assumes that one step will lead to a series of events that lead to an extreme often bad scenario.--Its 1954. Vietnamese nationalists are on the verge of securing an independent Vietnam under communist leader Ho C
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Can you outsmart this logical fallacy? - Alex Gendler
1,288 views / 1 likes - addedExplore the psychology of the cognitive bias known as the conjunction fallacy, where we assume specific conditions are more probable than general ones. --Meet Lucy. She was a math major in college, and aced all her courses in probability and statistics. W
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Can you outsmart the fallacy that divided a nation? - Elizabeth Cox
146 views / 1 likes - addedExplore the middle ground fallacy, which assumes that the truth is always a compromise between two extreme opposing positions.--Its 1819. The US is preparing to make Missouri and Maine new states. One representative insists that slavery shouldnt be allowe
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Can you outsmart the fallacy that fooled a generation of doctors? - Elizabeth Cox
341 views / 0 likes - addedDig into the false cause fallacy, which assumes that one event causes another, and learn how to distinguish between correlation and causation.--Its 1843, and a debate is raging about one of the most common killers of women: childbed fever no one knows wha
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Can you outsmart the fallacy that started a witch hunt? - Elizabeth Cox
339 views / 1 likes - addedDig into the burden of proof fallacy, which assumes that something is true unless proven false and relies on arguments from ignorance.--Its 1950. Anti-communist sentiment in the United States is at an all-time high. Senator Joseph McCarthy claims he has a
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Is the "hot hand" real? - Numberphile
652 views / 0 likes - addedNew research sheds light on the so-called Hot Hand Fallacy. Featuring Professor Lisa Goldberg. More links & stuff in full description below ↓↓↓ A bit extra from this interview: https://youtu.be/BvG35txQkD0 More with Professor Goldberg: http://bit.ly/LisaG
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Simpson's Paradox
566 views / 0 likes - addedThanks to https://brilliant.org/minutephysics for sponsoring this video! This video is about Simpson's paradox, a statistical paradox and ecological fallacy where seemingly contradictory results are implied by a single set of data depending on how it's gr
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Do Chairs Exist?
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