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Hanlon's razor is an adage or rule of thumb that states: [1]. Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity. It is a philosophical razor that suggests a way of eliminating unlikely explanations for human behavior.
Base rate fallacy or base rate neglect, the tendency to ignore general information and focus on information only pertaining to the specific case, even when the general information is more important. [48] Compassion fade, the tendency to behave more compassionately towards a small number of identifiable victims than to a large number of ...
Informal fallacies – arguments that are logically unsound for lack of well-grounded premises. [14]Argument from incredulity – when someone can't imagine something to be true, and therefore deems it false, or conversely, holds that it must be true because they can't see how it could be false.
Ignore or deny information that conflicts with existing beliefs ("This doughnut is not a high-sugar food.") Three cognitive biases are components of dissonance theory: the bias where one feels they do not have any biases, the bias where one is "better, kinder, smarter, more moral and nicer than average", and the confirmation bias .
It's not exactly accurate to call the Fed's rate cuts "a minor thing" like Dimon recently did. Granted, a single rate cut may not be so monumental. But a series of rate cuts, which is what's ...
Getting attention is not always a good thing. That detail didn't make it back on the page, but here's what did, over the course of the next 24 hours: seemingly every moronic thing I'd written or had written about me; my parents' careers; my age. My age. It was an epic be-careful-what-you-wish-for moment.
Ignore the troll by not communicating with them via their talk page, even to notify them of the block. This denies recognition to vandals that might otherwise turn them into long-term abusers. In the past we have neatly categorized vandals and constructed shrines for them on Wikipedia.
Any change affecting an article's meaning is not minor, even if it concerns a single word. Because editors may choose to ignore minor edits when reviewing recent changes, the distinction between major and minor edits is significant. Logged-in users can set their preferences not to display minor edits. If there is any chance that another editor ...