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The bias blind spot is a metabias since it refers to a pattern of inaccurate judgment in reasoning about cognitive biases. Monday, January 14, suppressed evidence.
A cogent argument presents all the relevant evidence. An argument that omits relevant evidence appears stronger and more cogent than it is.
The fallacy of suppressed evidence occurs when an arguer intentionally omits relevant data. This is a difficult fallacy to detect because we often have no way of knowing that we haven't been told the whole truth. Many advertisements commit this fallacy.
Ads inform us of a product's dangers only if required to do so by law. Ads never state that a competitor's product is equally good.
Posted by Robert Todd Carroll at 8: Monday, January 7, anecdotal evidence testimonials. Testimonials and anecdotes are used to support claims in many fields. Advertisers often rely on testimonials to persuade consumers of the effectiveness or value of their products or services.
Others use anecdotes to drive home the horror of some alleged activity or the danger of widely-used electronic devices like cell phones. In the mids, there were many people, some in law enforcement, claiming that Satanists were abducting and abusing children on a massive scale.
The anecdotes involved vivid descriptions of horrible sexual abuse, even murder of innocent children. The anecdotes were quite convincing, especially when they were repeated on nationally televised programs with popular hosts like Geraldo Rivera.
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