toupee fallacy

短语

词形变化

toupee fallacies 复数 toupee fallacies

别名

toupée fallacy

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A form of selection bias in which a thing whose quality is measured in terms of being difficult to detect is wrongly judged to be of poor quality in general, caused by the fact that most people only notice poor-quality instances of it.

    数学 哲学

    Not all toupees are bad, but you only spot the bad toupees. That's the toupee fallacy.

词源

In reference to the conventional wisdom that all toupees look bad, caused by the fact that good quality toupees are usually not noticed.

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