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Comment author: eternal_neophyte 16 June 2015 01:40:20AM *  0 points [-]

†Maybe this already has a name, but I've read a lot of stuff and it feels like a distinct concept to me.

"Misclassification"?

Edit: changed from "category error" which is in fact something completely different.

Comment author: malcolmocean 16 June 2015 06:13:25AM 0 points [-]

Hmmm. Yeah. Although I guess maybe the issue is that system 1 has misclassified, whereas system 2 is fine...

Comment author: eternal_neophyte 16 June 2015 06:38:55AM 0 points [-]

Sounds like a failure of the representativeness heuristic then, which isn't quite so nice a phrase as "pattern botching".

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