The most famous example of the gambler's fallacy occurred at the Casino de Monte-Carlo in Monaco in 1913. The roulette wheel's ball had fallen on black several times in a row.

The red herring logical fallacy is very often used -- so often you may not even notice when it comes into play. Here's one example: On June 9, 2022, U.S. Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, tweeted in ...

This is a straightforward example of the fallacy of Straw Person. Before showing how to identify the fallacy correctly, let's look at a typical example of a botched identification. 1. Straw Person. 2.

Below we’ve illustrated a few examples of gambler’s fallacy, let’s take a look: Selling Winning Stocks Too Early. Imagine a trader holding a stock performing well for several weeks.

Sensory memories are stored for a few seconds at most. They come from the five senses: hearing, vision, touch, smell, and taste. They are stored only for as long as the sense is being stimulated.

While the examples above may seem relatively trivial, they show how common the sunk cost fallacy is. And it can affect decisions with much higher stakes in our lives. Imagine that Bob previously ...

Example of the slippery slope fallacy: The enactment of gun control measures in any capacity directly threatens the Second Amendment. Ultimately, the government will take away our guns and we won ...

But is every scenario like the one I've described an example of "no true Scotsman" fallacy? Say Bob claims to be a Christian, but frequently lies and betrays and kills.

Pathetic fallacy is always about giving emotions to something something non-human. Personification is giving any human attribute to an object. For example, 'The wind whispered through the trees ...

A famous example came in 1913 at a roulette table in a Monte Carlo casino, where “black” hit 26 times in a row. Bettors lost millions wagering on “red,” mistakenly believing that it was due.