Have you ever encountered a subpar hotel breakfast while on holiday? You don't really like the food choices on offer, but since you already paid for the meal as part of your booking, you force ...

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With the constant stream of data about COVID-19, it can be hard to make sense of all the numbers. We look at the base rate fallacy, and how some people are making this mistake when assessing risk.

Ever hear about the sunk cost fallacy? Does that ring a bell? Well, if it doesn't, it may be the reason behind the "I know what I have" statement in used car adverts, as well as the motive behind why ...

In simple terms, a logical fallacy is a flaw in reasoning that weakens your argument; you’ve drawn a conclusion based on illogical, irrelevant, deceptive, or otherwise faulty evidence. You’re probably ...

Narrative fallacy is a term introduced by Nassim Taleb [1]. It refers to our difficulty looking at a sequence of facts without connecting them in some way, either to each other or to something else we ...

Logical fallacies are mistakes in arguments. For example, if someone says that something is better solely because it is more "natural," this is the appeal to nature fallacy. If someone presents two ...

If your life is impressive on paper but you still don't feel fulfilled, read this.

Innovations like sewing machines or word processors didn’t lead to mass unemployment. Instead, they changed jobs and spawned new businesses.

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