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This idea is often called the "Toupée fallacy", the idea being people often think all hair toupées look fake because they can always spot them, implicitly ignor
by georgemcbay 12y ago
This idea is often called the "Toupée fallacy", the idea being people often think all hair toupées look fake because they can always spot them, implicitly ignoring that they are not accounting for the fact that some could be good enough that they are unable to spot them.
- Dylan16807 12y agoExcept that this effect mysteriously didn't happen with fake 20 dollar bills! Perhaps we have a fallacy fallacy on our hands.
- TheHypnotist 12y agoWell, not entirely, because we also had very expensive machines that ID fakes. We used this when one was suspicious but weren't sure. I dont know how it worked, but it had more sensors and a process of ID'ing bills that I still don't really understand. This is more often then not how we found 20's since usually they were too numerous to scrutinize manually. So you could try and walk in with a great toupee but I'm gonna suck it off with my expensive vacuum anyway.
- skj 12y agoThis is only a counterargument if you actually put all of the bills through this machine, eventually. Did you do that, perhaps as a final sorting measure? Otherwise, the ones that were too good to arouse your suspicion were swept through.
- TheHypnotist 12y agoWell, eventually all of our money would be sold to this machine. So, yes. Our drawers were only allowed to have some small sum, and usually no large bills.