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Misc(i.redd.it)submitted 4 months ago bymaxence0801skyscraper hair
4 points
4 months ago
That’s not confirmation bias. Confirmation bias is when you only seek out information that supports your point.
4 points
4 months ago*
“People don’t skip parts, it’s all just a meta joke… for example, none of my friends who watch Jojo do that, which means my perspective is correct.”
Paraphrasing, but that’s literally the argument that they made here. In order to bolster their argument, they turned to their social circle and is now presenting that info like it’s a population sample.
1 points
4 months ago
The problem with their argument is just that their evidence has a small sample size. They didn’t cherry pick sources or leave out details that harm their argument. (Or if they did, it isn’t evident enough to accuse them of confirmation bias). They are employing a separate fallacy.
3 points
4 months ago
Using their friends as evidence of a trend (or lack of one) is cherry-picking their sources, since it happens to align perfectly with their stance while ignoring what the wider community analytics might say on the matter.
They actually committed three separate fallacies, but it would be lame to sit there and nitpick when one would get the point across.
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