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Re:A UX designer walks into a Tesla Bar by edmundsauto on Sunday January 30, 2022 @06:56PM (#30142621)
Sharpshooters fallacy is the name of the cognitive bias. It happens in a lot of fields; notably, finance and investment.
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Re:A UX designer walks into a Tesla Bar by sodality2 on Sunday January 30, 2022 @07:04PM (#30142694)
Actually, the WWII example is Survivorship bias: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivorship_bias#In_the_milit...
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Re:A UX designer walks into a Tesla Bar by IncRnd on Sunday January 30, 2022 @07:35PM (#30142922)
Both fallacies apply, as do many others. It is a mistake to believe only one fallacy applies in a given situation.
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Re:A UX designer walks into a Tesla Bar by sodality2 on Sunday January 30, 2022 @08:03PM (#30143159)
I shall call it... the singular fallacy fallacy.
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Re:A UX designer walks into a Tesla Bar by IncRnd on Monday January 31, 2022 @10:00AM (#30148589)
Yikes, I can't see the forest for the trees!
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Re:A UX designer walks into a Tesla Bar by gukov on Sunday January 30, 2022 @07:02PM (#30142681)
More commonly known as survivorship bias.
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