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by mopierotti 1778 days ago
This is my first time seeing this one mentioned, but I'm curious, what makes something a "real" fallacy?

It seems like it's a real mistake that people make. I guess one could categorize it as a more specific case of misunderstanding a distribution of values. (In the same vein as mean vs median, outlier skewing, assuming unimodal vs bimodal distribution, etc.)

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The "realness" is determined by the signal to noise ratio. In this case I find mostly joke sites, memes, and sites trying to sell a political/social agenda using it.