Tem42 comments on The Pre-Historical Fallacy - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Tem42 05 July 2015 03:10:36PM 0 points [-]

Yes - and if authors gave an indication of what sort of evidence they were looking at, it would not be a fallacy. It is fine to report that '5/5 of the X that we looked at are Y', but the claim that 'X are Y' is not so fine. Most educated people (for example, science writers) seem to understand this for most cases, but drop their critical thinking when it comes to humans...