Texas Sharpshooter

One concept. Four tiers of command. Which do you speak?

Category: Logic

Foundational Lexiconcherry-picking data
Executive Parlancepattern imposition
Scholarly Discourseretrospective data selection
Babel ZenithTexas Sharpshooter Fallacy
Origin: Statistics

Etymology & Meaning

Selecting data that fits a predetermined conclusion.

In the Boardroom

Finding patterns after the fact by selecting data.

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