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Showing posts with label Texas Sharpshooter Fallacy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Texas Sharpshooter Fallacy. Show all posts
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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