In a recent episode of her podcast Ex-Psychic Saved, former medium Jenn Nizza sounded the alarm on grounding, or earthing, ...

Moving from innocuous examples, consider the spread of misinformation on social media. Misinformation is false information that is spread unintentionally, while disinformation is false information ...

Roland Barthes’ notion that the author is dead has been incredibly influential, though it was not as original or ...

In a recent article on the failed California Bullet Train project, I noted that its promoters are depending heavily upon bureaucratic inertia to keep construction going even after cost overruns have ...

A new study finds that ChatGPT mirrors human decision-making biases in nearly half of tested scenarios, including overconfidence and the gambler’s fallacy. While it excels at logic and math, the AI ...

Argumentum ad populum is another type of a logical fallacy that argues for the truth of a claim based on its widespread belief. “If many say he’s innocent, he must be.” This is a popular ...

Most people use logical fallacies unintentionally, but not all, writes Gary Goshgarian in “Exploring Language,” a textbook used in a fair number of college English courses.

However, it’s worth noting that in golf betting, recent form and past results of an individual player can be an indicator for future performance, so that is not a form of the gambler’s fallacy ...

The number of examples of outcome bias just from the political events in this country would arguably exhaust the archives of ChatBox. However, the public evisceration of Secret Service Director ...

In writing courses, for example, students learn how to spot fallacies, and elementary proofs are covered in trigonometry. Much can be gained by teaching people logical thinking without using any ...

Logical fallacies are errors in reasoning that undermine the logic of your argument. In the realm of digital strategy, where decisions can have far-reaching consequences, recognizing and avoiding ...