Logical fallacies

cherry picking

You found the data that agreed with you and stopped looking.

  • “Three reviews say it’s great.”

    “What do all the reviews say?”

    Three positives out of four hundred is a very different claim.

Every dataset large enough contains a subset supporting almost anything. Picking that subset feels like research and produces the opposite of it.

How to answer it: ask what the full picture looks like, and what was excluded. The excluded material is usually where the answer is.

Every example here supports the page, so the page is proven.

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