This card explains "observational selection," also known as "enumeration of favorable circumstances," or counting the hits and forgetting the misses, with an example about states and their presidents.
Tato karta vysvětluje "observational selection" neboli "výčet příznivých okolností", známý také jako počítání úspěchů a zapomínání na neúspěchy, s příkladem o státech a jejich prezidentech.
| Fallacy | observational selection, also called the enumeration of favorable circumstances |
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| Definition and Examples | or as the philosopher Francis Bacon described it, counting the hits and forgetting the misses (e.g., A state boasts of the Presidents it has produced, but is silent on its serial killers) |
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