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Re:What you should learn from the man who lost $600,000 on F... by herbig on Thursday September 17, 2015 @12:52PM (#10234528)
That's not confirmation bias, unfortunately. The argument was not that women aren't concerned, although I would also argue that they, in general, are not.

Bias aware bias: the tendency to bring up biases in an online argument, regardless of their definition or relevancy.

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Re:What you should learn from the man who lost $600,000 on F... by cbhl on Thursday September 17, 2015 @02:45PM (#10235286)
As far as I can tell, the argument was, "All 50 women I know are on Facebook, therefore less than 1 in 10,000 women have noticed their Facebook photos are harvested for use on shady dating websites." That doesn't logically follow.

I'd argue your remark is an ad hominem attack because latched onto my use of the word "bias" rather than refuting my argument with data.

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