Talk:Counterfactual fallacy

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Attribution[edit]

Some content from http://evolutionwiki.org/wiki/Counterfactual_Fallacy Fuzzy "Cat" Potato, Jr. (talk/stalk) 04:03, 22 November 2015 (UTC)

Example[edit]

If women are payed less on average, more women would be hired to save on cost. Narky SawtoothNarky.png (Floof!~) 11:07, 26 November 2015 (UTC)

I'm removing this example because while the 77 cents on the dollar statistic doesn't factor a lot of things in, there's still a 3-4% difference when you take all those factors (flexible hours, years off for childbearing) into consideration. Thus not a counterfactual. — Unsigned, by: 138.51.113.90 / talk / contribs
Regardless of the numbers, it does appear to be a poor example of this particular fallacy. Also: On talk pages, please sign your comments using four tildes (~~~~) or by clicking on the sign button: SigButt.png on the toolbar above the edit panel. You can also indent successive talk page comments using one more colon (:) for each line. Thank you. Reverend Black Percy (talk) 18:38, 28 March 2017 (UTC)