Selective reporting

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Revision as of 15:05, 10 December 2008

Selective reporting refers to rare events which are widely reported, thereby altering the perception of people as to how common they actually are. This is common amongst practictioners of bullshit, where they selectively report their successes but do not publish or mention their numerous failures.

Because people have difficulty in processing genuine probabilities, they can often selectively report events to themselves. For example, some people claim "psychic connections" with friends and can tell when they are about to call. This idea is reinforced every time they think of a friend and they do call, however much time later, but it is not refuted everytime they think of a friend and they don't call.

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