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by jonathanstrange 2796 days ago
No, that's not what's going on. The reason for the fallacy is that we tend to find more detailed stories more convincing than less detailed stories.

However, not everybody, you can be trained against that. I've heard that police interrogators are less prone to this fallacy because they know that liars who had time to prepare often add dozens of details to their story that no ordinary person would remember.

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> 'fallacy is that we tend to find more detailed stories more convincing'

Anecdotic: Somebody asked: "Why do I feel often that angry, when I get a 'Typ5-Answer'?" (With the background an TYp5-Answer is located in the field of the manipulation of (someones) reality.

HINT: Typ1-Answer: labeling of 'Objects' / Type2-Answer: naming of coherencies / Ty ....(-;