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Is there a word for the fallacy of believing that another professional didn't consider the factor you thought of in seconds? I see this all the time at meetup
by mjlee 7y ago
Is there a word for the fallacy of believing that another professional didn't consider the factor you thought of in seconds?
I see this all the time at meetup tech talks and it infuriates me!
- Nasrudith 7y agoIt wouldn't be a formal fallacy in itself although certainly impolite. Perhaps like Slippery Slope. It is related to arguement from ignorance and Dunning-Kreuger effect in that it often assumes their comprehended issues are the end of all problems and that the objections may already be implicitly handled. Listing everything explicitly in exhaustive detail technically addresses it but would be both inefficient and bad communication from how overloaded it would get. That said assuming uncovered issues are implicitly covered is itself a fallacious inference. It may be dickish pedantry that is wrong based upon incomplete information but not illogical given what is known and communicated.
- BurningFrog 7y agoThis is 90% of the critique I see of Economics...
- JoelMcCracken 7y agothis is like every comment on HN
- mrfusion 7y agoMjlee’s law. Congratulations!
- taneq 7y agoIt'd be a corollary of the Dunning-Kruger effect, I guess. Like, you don't know enough about the problem space to know that your first thought is already well known?
- mensetmanusman 7y agoPeople are quite skeptical since the great replication crisis.