Hacker Newsnew | past | comments | ask | show | jobs | submitlogin

That's generally the racial profiling fallacy, too. Applying demographic probabilities to the individual.


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




Guidelines | FAQ | Lists | API | Security | Legal | Apply to YC | Contact

Search: