Sentence examples for a common fallacy from inspiring English sources

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MD Yours is a common fallacy.

He said that this was a common fallacy.

There's a common fallacy that anyone can review a film.

Part of the problem here has to do with a common fallacy about history.

It is a common fallacy that all are on massive hourly rates.

Actually, they are more shrubs than trees - it's a common fallacy that beavers fell big trees.

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Managers at Microsoft, for example, figured out that programmers vastly underestimate how long it will take them to complete tasks—a common cognitive bias called the planning fallacy.

A common gamblers' fallacy, called the doctrine of the maturity of the chances (or the Monte-Carlo fallacy), falsely assumes that each play in a game of chance is dependent on the others and that a series of outcomes of one sort should be balanced in the short run by the other possibilities.

The law professors argued that the justices in the majority were in the grip of a common psychological fallacy: that other people's perceptions might be shaped by socioeconomic position or political commitment, but they themselves perceived the objective truth.

He began by asking witness Judith Curry what causes ice ages (Milankovich cycles, which we've known for nearly 100 years), so that he could make the point that natural factors caused past climate changes – a point that usually leads to a common logical fallacy (presented here in cartoon form).

Joyable and Happify's reported success rates employ a common statistical fallacy known as survival bias.

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