• TaterTot@piefed.social
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    6 days ago

    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.

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      6 days ago

      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

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        6 days ago

        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)