Showing posts with label fallacy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label fallacy. Show all posts

Saturday, 21 June 2014

Pitfalls of Thinking: Anecdotal Evidence

Relying on anecdotes is intuitively a bad idea, but why? When we rely on a very small sample of outcomes, the results may not represent the population as a whole. This is the basis of gambling,...

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Wednesday, 18 June 2014

The Deadly Doctor Gambit

How to respond when confronted by an alternative medicine proponent with statistics about medical mistakes, drug interaction, and iatrogenic deaths. Remember that risk is not the only factor...

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Pitfalls of Thinking: Anecdotal Evidence

Relying on anecdotes is intuitively a bad idea, but why? When we rely on a very small sample of outcomes, the results may not represent the population as a whole. This is the basis of gambling,...

have a look at http://associate-offers.com for some tips