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The crisis was not the crash of the markets. Rather, it was what resulted from the crash: a decline in employment and the decline of demand for manufactured products. As sales went down, employment went down. Therefore demand went down, and sales went down further, in a spiral that could not be arrested
George Friedman • The Storm Before the Calm: America's Discord, the Coming Crisis of the 2020s, and the Triumph Beyond
The fallacy is an ancient one that, however, has a powerful tendency to crop up in statistical material, where it is disguised by a welter of impressive figures. It is the one that says that if B follows A, then A has caused B.
Darrell Huff • How to Lie with Statistics
It is indeed an example of what we might call the “harder-better” fallacy: that which is the most difficult to achieve is judged the most praiseworthy, regardless of its actual desirability or value.
Kate Manne • Unshrinking: How to Face Fatphobia
You can’t let it lead to the paralysis of the Slippery Slope Effect, the idea that if we start with action A, everything after is a slippery slope down to hell,
Rhiannon Beaubien • The Great Mental Models Volume 1: General Thinking Concepts
Success leads to laxity and bloat, and these lead to decline. Few organizations avoid this tragic arc.
Richard Rumelt • Good Strategy/Bad Strategy: The difference and why it matters
The bandwagon fallacy, also known as the appeal to the masses or appeal to common belief fallacy, is the logical fallacy of claiming that something is true because everyone believes it. Whether that belief is actually true or not doesn’t matter—if an arguer claims that a position is true because it’s popular, the arguer is using the bandwagon falla... See more
Bandwagon Fallacy: Definition and Examples
more complicated (or random) than they realize; b. the retrospective distortion, or how we can assess matters only after the fact, as if they were in a rearview mirror (history seems clearer and more organized in history books than in empirical reality); and c. the overvaluation of factual information and the handicap of authoritative and learned p
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