fallacy

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"I think the thing young founders get wrong is they view hours worked in and of itself as necessary and sufficient to think of themselves as productive. And that's where the fallacy lies", he explains.

From BBC • Feb. 8, 2026

The sunk-cost fallacy tempts people to pay escalating premiums because they’ve paid for so long.

From MarketWatch • Nov. 15, 2025

“There’s this fallacy that companies were lowering the bar,” she says.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 13, 2025

And as long as we believe in this fallacy of separation, that’s going to continue.”

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 4, 2025

Doing so is sometimes termed the “broad base” fallacy, and we’ve already cited a couple of instances of it.

From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos