Sunday, July 1, 2012

[PL 211] What's the fallacy?

In the second part of this Radiolab podcast, Niel deGrasse Tyson accuses the researchers of the study on falling cats of committing the fallacy of


  1. biased statistics
  2. hasty generalization
  3. circular reasoning
  4. misleading vividness

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