Bandwagon Fallacy: Definition and Examples
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Bandwagon Fallacy: Definition and Examples
The Echo Chamber environment makes confirmation bias easy. The “bandwagon effect” describes our tendency to feel that “if everyone else believes it, it must be true.” Echo Chambers give their members the distinct impression that everyone believes the narrative, which alone is enough evidence for most people to stop questioning it.
Tim Urban • What's Our Problem?: A Self-Help Book for Societies
Selective-Evidence Fallacy When we cite just the evidence that supports our favored interpretation or when we dismiss evidence that seems to argue against our view, we commit the selective-evidence fallacy.
J. Scott Duvall, J. Daniel Hays • Grasping God's Word
Just because everyone’s doing it, doesn’t make it a good reason for you to do it too.
When “everyone’s doing it,” it’s not unusual to find out later that it’s addictive and deadly - like smoking cigarettes, plastic production and social media (I don’t know about you, but it makes me feel numb inside).
If everyone is doing it, I won't be doing it. I'll exit the road, and you should too. Why? Because everyone isn't wealthy. If everyone were rich, “everybody is doing it” would work.
MJ DeMarco • The Millionaire Fastlane: Crack the Code to Wealth and Live Rich for a Lifetime
- Name calling—giving an idea a bad label—is used to make us reject and condemn the idea without evidence. 2. Glittering generality—associating something with a “virtue word”—is used to make us accept and approve the thing without evidence. 3. Transfer carries over the authority, sanction, or prestige of something respected and revered in order to ma
Renee DiResta • Invisible Rulers
Recognizing these fallacies is crucial. They don't necessarily render an argument's conclusion false, but they indicate that the conclusion isn't properly supported.