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Basic Laws of Logic

January 14th, 2008 · Comments

Before I can launch into diatribes about overcoming fallacies and pwning abusers of heap arguments the rules of the game need be established.  Luckily, logic only has three.  Yep, three laws rule all of logic and rule with an iron fist.  Each has a cute name and a seemingly innocent definition, but it’s the ramifications [...]

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Biased Sampling

January 1st, 2008 · Comments

Biased Sampling is a fallacy committed when some members of a group are less likely to be included in a selection than others biasing an outcome. This fallacy takes two general forms and I’ll discuss both below.

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