The McNamara Fallacy, named after Robert McNamara, the U.S. Secretary of Defense during the Vietnam War, refers to the peril of relying exclusively on quantitative data to make decisions, especially ...

Recently I've been deep-diving into a model of brain, mind, and behavior—active inference and the free energy principle—developed by a leading neuroscientist and computational psychiatrist Karl ...

Let's simplify the above definition to better understand it. The Gambler's Fallacy is a common misunderstanding of how probability works. It occurs when someone believes that if something happens more ...

Have you ever encountered a subpar hotel breakfast while on holiday? You don’t really like the food choices on offer, but since you already paid for the meal as part of your booking, you force ...

Speak like an insider! Welcome to Snopestionary, where we’ll define a term or piece of fact-checking lingo that we use on the Snopes team. Have a term you want us to explain? Let us know. The red ...

What is the Ad Hominem Fallacy? The ad hominem fallacy occurs when someone attacks the person making an argument rather than the argument itself. This fallacy diverts attention from the actual issue ...