“The overflight produced a noise that was even impressive to the human observers.” The overflight in question was that of a low-flying Chinook helicopter. It was participating in a recent experiment which was attempting to answer the question ‘Do goats get stressed-out by low-flying helicopters?’ To find out, a group of Dutch investigators exposed five […]
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The fallacy of examples: an example
Yes, I am a goat-giver, and proud of it. But— I’ve noticed in business writing in particular the frequency of what we can call the Fallacy of Examples (a type of Fallacy of Hasty Generalization). You read some story about a successful CEO as if we should learn from his (yes, usually it’s a him) […]