nazgulnarsil comments on The Fallacy of Dressing Like a Winner - Less Wrong

19 Post author: benelliott 26 December 2010 08:59PM

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Comment author: nazgulnarsil 27 December 2010 05:06:15PM 7 points [-]

no need to call it dressing like a winner. you describe the post hoc ergo propter hoc fallacy.

Comment author: thomblake 29 December 2010 06:37:20PM 2 points [-]

Indeed, calling it "dressing like a winner" seems off-base, as dressing like a winner is often actually instrumentally helpful.