Spurlock comments on The Substitution Principle - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Spurlock 30 January 2012 06:02:26PM 0 points [-]

The Conjunction Fallacy: ”What's the probability that Linda is a feminist” becomes ”how representative is Linda of my conception of feminists”.

I think this is more precisely an example of the Represenativeness Heuristic, though the point about substitution still stands.