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Texas Sharpshooter Fallacy
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Texas Sharpshooter Fallacy
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Friday, February 10, 2023
Earthquakes and sharpshooters
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A guy is driving through Texas, and passes a barn. It's got a bullseye painted on the side -- with a bullet hole in the dead center. He...
Thursday, June 4, 2020
Falling in line
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What amazes me about so many crazy claims is that you get the impression that the people making them didn't even try to find a natural e...
Tuesday, July 4, 2017
Oil prophecies
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The Texas Sharpshooter Fallacy is the practice of picking out the data points, after the fact, that support whatever your claim is. The na...
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