The Texas Sharpshooter Fallacy¶
Evers, J. L. H. (. (2017). The Texas Sharpshooter Fallacy. Human Reproduction, 32(7).
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- It is also easy to over-read clusters: drawing a "problem area" boundary around what is really flag noise is the classic move of painting the target around wherever the arrows happened to land.
This sourceExplains the Texas sharpshooter fallacy as interpreting coincidental clusters as meaningful and painting a target around a fortuitous cluster after the shots have landed.
- It is also easy to over-read clusters: drawing a "problem area" boundary around what is really flag noise is the classic move of painting the target around wherever the arrows happened to land.
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