Man who stole $1M bucket of gold details escape from US

Re:Man who stole $1M bucket of gold details escape from US by rokhayakebe on Wednesday February 07, 2018 @09:23PM (#16329697)

And what's he telling everyone

1) Ego

2) I have no scientific evidence for this but it feels humans want to confess and unless death find them first everyone will confess every crime they have done. It could be through a joke, or to a complete stranger or some other way.

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Re:Man who stole $1M bucket of gold details escape from US by pavel_lishin on Wednesday February 07, 2018 @10:20PM (#16329916)

What's the name for this logical fallacy? You think people want to confess because you know people who have. You don't know of many who got away with a crime and didn't confess.

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Re:Man who stole $1M bucket of gold details escape from US by logiclion on Wednesday February 07, 2018 @10:42PM (#16330009)

Whats the name for assigning a logical fallacy to a post that starts with “no scientific evidence” and “it feels”?

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Re:Man who stole $1M bucket of gold details escape from US by roel_v on Thursday February 08, 2018 @03:02AM (#16330858)

'Less wrong syndrome'

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Re:Man who stole $1M bucket of gold details escape from US by jamornh on Wednesday February 07, 2018 @10:26PM (#16329941)

Sounds like survivorship or selection bias to me.

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Re:Man who stole $1M bucket of gold details escape from US by percival_krusen on Thursday February 08, 2018 @12:47AM (#16330476)

Hmm, availability heuristic? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Availability_heuristic

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Re:Man who stole $1M bucket of gold details escape from US by lsaferite on Thursday February 08, 2018 @08:09AM (#16331831)

Also maybe related, but in the inverse sense, is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivorship_bias

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Re:Man who stole $1M bucket of gold details escape from US by ergothus on Thursday February 08, 2018 @11:14AM (#16333134)

A friend in law school once told me that in the US a deathbed confession is treated as an exception to normal heresay rules, because (i guess ) we think someone dying has no reason to live. Meanwhile in some other countries (india?) deathbed statements are considered less reliable, because the person knows they won't have to face any consequences for lying.

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Re:Man who stole $1M bucket of gold details escape from US by rowyourboat on Thursday February 08, 2018 @05:16AM (#16331260)

If you only know about the crimes people confessed to, how would you know that everybody actually confessed to every crime they did?

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