toupee fallacies

A form of toupee fallacy — A form of selection bias in which a thing whose quality is measured in terms of being difficult to detect is wrongly judged to be of poor quality in general, caused by the fact that most people only notice poor-quality instances of it.

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Meanings

noun
  1. pluralplural of toupee fallacy
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