Narrative fallacy is a term introduced by Nassim Taleb [1]. It refers to our difficulty looking at a sequence of facts without connecting them in some way, either to each other or to something else we ...
Granted, I may not have always been aware of the term - or just how much it's used as a rhetorical device - but the essence of the problem has always been there for me, subconsciously at least. One of ...
"You can be so convinced of a particular thesis that you make the data say what you want it to," says Bill Tancer, GM of Global Research, Experian Hitwise. He calls this the problem of narrative ...