A Sharpshooter Drawing the Target AFTER He Unloaded (by Gemini)!!

Most Religions Commit the Texas Sharpshooter Fallacy!!

A Few that Don’t Are Mentioned Herein If You Want to Follow Them

I discussed my realization with Advanced Google Gemini, and it credited me with a contribution to the dialogue!!

I recently learned about the Texas Sharpshooter Fallacy with you. But, for the record, can you state it, please?

The Texas Sharpshooter Fallacy is a logical fallacy where you focus on similarities and ignore differences to come to a faulty conclusion.

It gets its name from an analogy:

Imagine a Texan firing a bunch of random shots at a barn wall. He then walks over and draws a bullseye around the tightest cluster of bullet holes, proclaiming himself a sharpshooter.

Of course, he isn’t skilled; he’s just picking out the hits and ignoring all the misses.

Here’s why it’s a fallacy:

• Cherry-picking data: The sharpshooter only focuses on the data that supports his desired conclusion (being a sharpshooter) and ignores the data that contradicts it (all the other bullet holes).
• Ignoring randomness: Clusters and patterns can happen by chance, but the fallacy assumes…