Ah, the toupée fallacy, “all toupées look fake, I’ve never seen one that looked real”. Bro never asks about someone’s beliefs, only knows that the Atheists who tell him outright are Atheists, and he makes a sweeping assumption about all Atheists.
To be fair, it’s not an “official classical” fallacy. It’s more of a tongue in cheek knock-off of selection bias. Pretty sure I’ve only seen it online.
Though I like it in cases like this, as it highlights how the group was selected based on the availability heuristic. Which to that point, survivorship bias would have fit really well here as well.
Looking back on it, I could have just posted the picture of that plane diagram and gotten my point across.
Ah, the toupée fallacy, “all toupées look fake, I’ve never seen one that looked real”. Bro never asks about someone’s beliefs, only knows that the Atheists who tell him outright are Atheists, and he makes a sweeping assumption about all Atheists.
Poor vegans get this one constantly.
As an atheist vegan, I… fuck I’ve done it again.
People who think they can “always tell” if someone is trans
I feel that one also has the false positive version as well.
“Toupée fallacy”? Interesting, I only know that as survivorship or selection bias.
To be fair, it’s not an “official classical” fallacy. It’s more of a tongue in cheek knock-off of selection bias. Pretty sure I’ve only seen it online.
Though I like it in cases like this, as it highlights how the group was selected based on the availability heuristic. Which to that point, survivorship bias would have fit really well here as well.
Looking back on it, I could have just posted the picture of that plane diagram and gotten my point across.
Oh, you are another shot aircraft poster?
Apparently I’m not quite clever enough for that. I’m more of a “take too long to get to the point” and “hindsight is 20/20” poster. ¯\(ツ)/¯
I do think it clicks on a particularly viceral level unlike the other options. It may be tongue in cheek, but it’s very rhetorically effective