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toupee fallacies

toupee fallacies is the plural of toupee fallacy.

Meaning of toupee fallacy

Noun

toupee fallacy (plural toupee fallacies)

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

Questions about toupee fallacies

What is toupee fallacies the plural of?
Toupee fallacies is the plural of toupee fallacy.

Words near toupee fallacies in the dictionary

  1. tounkite
  2. toupas
  3. toupases
  4. toupe
  5. toupee
  6. toupee fallacies
  7. toupee fallacy
  8. toupeed
  9. toupees
  10. toupes
  11. toupet

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