the texas sharpshooter fallacy

The Texas Sharpshooter Fallacy is a logical error in which someone selectively focuses on specific data points or patterns to find a correlation or significance, while ignoring other relevant data or patterns. It is similar to a shooter who fires a round of shots at a target, and then draws a bullseye around the tightest cluster of bullet holes to claim accuracy, disregarding the random shots outside the cluster.

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