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		tunesmith on Dec 15, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Cognitive distortions that undermine clear thinkin... That's generally the racial profiling fallacy, too. Applying demographic probabilities to the individual.

DontchaKnowit on Dec 15, 2023 [–]

yeah absolutely. If there is not a term for that phenomenon more broadly there should be. Its basically just a fundamental misunderstanding of statistics that even people educated in statistics seem to fall for

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