Comment by taneq

3 days ago

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?