Your mind is constantly interpreting what you see, remember, and experience, but those interpretations are not always as ...

Survivorship bias is when your analysis focuses on those who made it while ignoring those who didn’t. You got a decent job, ...

Though Herbert Hoover was a pioneer among presidents in getting the government to “do something” about a depression, he was ...

Logical fallacies are mistakes in arguments. For example, if someone says that something is better solely because it is more "natural," this is the appeal to nature fallacy. If someone presents two ...

The naturalistic fallacy is the error of concluding that something is "good" or "right" simply because it is "natural" (occurring in nature, instinctive, or non ...

You have probably encountered the base rate fallacy, and it probably fooled you. Part mathematical paradox and part cognitive bias, this mental oversight has surprisingly forceful things to say about ...

The day I realized I was a victim of domestic violence was the day that I posted about it online. After describing my situation on a forum, others responded with the vocabulary to articulate what was ...

The fallacy of affirming the consequent is a fallacy in which the affirmation of A is derived from the affirmation of B in a conditional statement "If A, then B." This reasoning is a fallacy because, ...

Logical fallacies are flaws in reasoning. They are often called informal fallacies. It's becoming more common for people to call out these fallacies by name. You often hear accusations of people ...

Four months after Liberation Day, President Trump is poised to declare victory in his trade war. In July, he trumpeted his latest agreement with the E.U. as “the biggest deal ever made.” With the ...

The sunk cost fallacy is our tendency to continue with something we’ve invested money, effort, or time into—even if the current costs outweigh the benefits. When we fall prey to the sunk cost fallacy, ...

President Donald Trump is a walking, talking rhetorical fallacy. We should know this by now because he’s been dumbing down our public discourse for years, but it’s worth revisiting as he tries to ram ...