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Explore 2 cognitive biases related to this topic.

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.

Statistical Biases

/ Clustering illusion (related)

Survivorship Bias

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Survivorship bias is the logical error of concentrating on the people or things that made it past some selection process and overlooking those that did not, typically because of their lack of visibility.

Statistical Biases

/ Survival bias