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Learn about gambler’s fallacy, its impact on decision-making, and how to avoid this common pitfall with real-life examples.
Learn about the gambler's fallacy, its definition, examples, and how it influences decision-making, as well as strategies to avoid it.
The pursuit of self-improvement can sometimes lead us astray, according to neuroscientist Rachel Barr. She's coined the term "cold-plunge fallacy" to describe how specific wellness trends might do ...
The motte-and-bailey fallacy is kind of like a reverse strawman. Instead of the arguer making their opponent’s reasonable argument seem absurd, they instead make their own absurd argument seem ...
Not used just in online arguments, logical fallacies can be used to market stuff to you. Find out how to avoid falling for them.
More examples of recent logical fallacies used by President Trump and his spokespeople include: Slippery Slope – Slipper slope is a logical fallacy that concludes that something will eventually ...
As an example of the gambler’s fallacy, if a person flips a coin 10,000 times in a row and it lands on heads each time, an observer might think that the next coin flip has a higher chance of ...