Texas sharpshooter fallacy
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The Texas sharpshooter fallacy is an informal fallacy which is committed when differences in data are ignored, but similarities are overemphasized. From this reasoning, a false conclusion is inferred.
The name comes from a joke about a Texan who fires some gunshots at the side of a barn, then paints a target centered on the tightest cluster of hits and claims to be a sharpshooter.
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See also
- Anthropic principle
- Availability heuristic
- Clustering illusion
- Confirmation bias
- Look-elsewhere effect
- Overfitting
- Postdiction
- Ramsey theory
- Scan statistic
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