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Conjunction fallacy
- DanBC 11y agoI was going to write a blog post about this and why people link violence to mental illness. We know that people with mental illness are not more violent than the general population and that they're much more likely to be the victim of violent crime than the perpetrators of violent crime, but we still see people insist that mental illness means violent behaviour. I think that's conjunction fallacy mixed with a bit of confirmation bias.