Comment by nkrisc
4 days ago
And most people weren’t talking about it, but it’s inevitable that some were, and I guess that’s you. Surely you’re not surprised about all the times when you’re not talking about something that then shows up on HN?
You talk about stuff everyday, and stuff shows up on HN everyday, eventually they’ll coincide.
Oh my god do you think it was selection bias? No way, I’m certain it was spooky action at a distance! /s
The fallacy in question would be sharpshooter's fallacy. Selection bias is when a sample misrepresents the population.
I kinda feel like these are two different views on the same basic 'mismatch-between-sampling-and-distribution' fallacy, what am I missing here?