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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

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soulofmischief  3 days ago

The fallacy in question would be sharpshooter's fallacy. Selection bias is when a sample misrepresents the population.

  • taneq  3 days ago

    I kinda feel like these are two different views on the same basic 'mismatch-between-sampling-and-distribution' fallacy, what am I missing here?

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