"Fallacy" comes from the Latin word fallacia, meaning "deceit" or "trick," which in turn stems from fallere, meaning "to ...

Editorial Published: 25 November 2009 Democratic fallacy Nature 462, 389 (2009) Cite this article ...

In social and environmental sciences, ecological fallacy is an incorrect assumption about an individual based on aggregate data for a group. In the present study, the validity of this assumption ...

Stack fallacy has caused many companies to attempt to capture new markets and fail spectacularly. When you see a database company thinking apps are easy, or a VM company thinking big data is easy ...

The sunk cost fallacy addresses the tendency of people to continue on a suboptimal path because they have committed a lot of time or resources to it already. Investors, for example, may double ...