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>it's not the same people complaining in both instances I just learned a brand-new term for this: It's called the "Goomba Fallacy"[1] [1]https://en.m.wiktiona
by Dilettante_ 1y ago
>it's not the same people complaining in both instances
I just learned a brand-new term for this: It's called the "Goomba Fallacy"[1]
[1]https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/Goomba_fallacy https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/Goomba_fallacy
- superfish 1y ago> The term references an Internet meme depicting the fallacy using Goombas, which was first posted to Twitter by @supersylvie_ on January 29, 2024. The history of this term goes back… one year? (from a rather unpopular meme) I’m all for introducing new vocab in english but it feels like there should already be a term for this. Maybe “population fallacy”: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecological_fallacy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecological_fallacy ?
- lcnPylGDnU4H9OF 1y agoFunny enough, searching "goomba fallacy" in wikipedia's search yields [association fallacy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_fallacy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_fallacy) and it appears to be more accurate. (Also, what I assume to be semantic search hitting that article from that search is amusing and more than a little telling.) The population fallacy is when one infers information about an individual from the group, which wasn't done here as there is no specific individual in question. The population fallacy is seeing that some demographic likes to do a thing more than other demographics and thinking therefore any given subject in that demographic likes to do that thing.
- HPsquared 1y agoThat's brilliant. I suppose the same issue exists in polling and politics in general. You can't please all of the people all of the time.
- casey2 1y agoThe renaming tactic used is much more interesting and useful than the fallacy