Argument from Fallacy
Assuming an argument is wrong because it contains a logical fallacy, even if its conclusion might still be true.
This bias occurs when someone dismisses a claim solely because it was presented with flawed reasoning. It happens because people often conflate the validity of an argument's structure with the truth of its conclusion. For example, dismissing a correct medical diagnosis because the doctor used an appeal to authority fallacy is an error. The conclusion may be right, even if the reasoning is poor.
Recognising a definition is not the same skill as spotting it.
Two scenarios from the app, with distractors drawn from the same family of biases — which is what makes them hard.
While debating traffic solutions, a person uses a false dichotomy. Another participant, spotting this, concludes that none of the proposed traffic solutions could possibly work.
Harper rejects a financial advisor's investment tip because it contained an anecdotal fallacy, even though the tip's risk profile fits Harper's portfolio.
Biases rarely arrive alone.
Understand more. Assume less.
188 biases, 18,869 scenarios, and a record of how you actually decide.
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