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And what's he telling everyone 1) Ego 2) I have no scientific evidence for this but it feels humans want to confess and unless death find them first everyone
by rokhayakebe 9y ago
And what's he telling everyone
1) Ego
2) I have no scientific evidence for this but it feels humans want to confess and unless death find them first everyone will confess every crime they have done. It could be through a joke, or to a complete stranger or some other way.
- pavel_lishin 9y agoWhat's the name for this logical fallacy? You think people want to confess because you know people who have. You don't know of many who got away with a crime and didn't confess.
- jamornh 9y agoSounds like survivorship or selection bias to me.
- logiclion 9y agoWhats the name for assigning a logical fallacy to a post that starts with “no scientific evidence” and “it feels”?
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- percival_krusen 9y agoHmm, availability heuristic? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Availability_heuristic https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Availability_heuristic
- lsaferite 9y agoAlso maybe related, but in the inverse sense, is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivorship_bias https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivorship_bias
- ergothus 9y agoA friend in law school once told me that in the US a deathbed confession is treated as an exception to normal heresay rules, because (i guess ) we think someone dying has no reason to live. Meanwhile in some other countries (india?) deathbed statements are considered less reliable, because the person knows they won't have to face any consequences for lying.
- rowyourboat 9y agoIf you only know about the crimes people confessed to, how would you know that everybody actually confessed to every crime they did?