{"id":458,"date":"2018-03-30T21:35:16","date_gmt":"2018-03-30T21:35:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/?p=458"},"modified":"2020-05-15T23:58:31","modified_gmt":"2020-05-16T03:58:31","slug":"new-fallacies-diving-rod-palm-reader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/2018\/03\/30\/new-fallacies-diving-rod-palm-reader\/","title":{"rendered":"New fallacies: divining rod, palm reader"},"content":{"rendered":"

Via Daily Nous<\/a>, I encountered two new informal fallacies. Keith Payne, Laura Niemi, and John Doris coin them in writing about implicit bias at Scientific American<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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  1. \"picture<\/a>the divining rod fallacy:<\/strong> On the basis of an instrument or scale for measurement being problematic, inferring that the property which it measures is not real. “[J]ust because a rod doesn’t find water doesn’t mean there’s no such thing as water.”<\/li>\n
  2. the palm reading fallacy:<\/strong> Expecting psychological or sociological phenomena which occur at the group level to yield predictions about particular group members. “[U]nlike palm readers, research psychologists aren’t usually in the business of telling you, as an individual, what your life holds in store.”<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    You should feel free to diagnose these fallacies in the arguments of your interlocutors. I’ve added them to my list<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Via Daily Nous, I encountered two new informal fallacies. Keith Payne, Laura Niemi, and John Doris coin them in writing about implicit bias at Scientific American. the divining rod fallacy: On the basis of an instrument or scale for measurement being problematic, inferring that the property which it measures is not real. “[J]ust because a … Continue reading “New fallacies: divining rod, palm reader”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9],"tags":[38],"class_list":["post-458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-philosophy","tag-fallacies"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7PjAo-7o","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=458"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1118,"href":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458\/revisions\/1118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}