Yup. In more modern politics, we’ve seen it in the trans debate. “I can always tell when someone is trans” is a fallacy, because you only notice the trans people who aren’t fully passing. It’s pure selection bias, where a large part of the population is convinced that all trans people look like beefy dudes in dresses.
Basically “I can always tell” as an actually fallacy. Neat
Yup. In more modern politics, we’ve seen it in the trans debate. “I can always tell when someone is trans” is a fallacy, because you only notice the trans people who aren’t fully passing. It’s pure selection bias, where a large part of the population is convinced that all trans people look like beefy dudes in dresses.