Affirming the Consequent

"Even though it seems intuitively correct to think so, the fact that every intelligent, hardworking, perservering person becomes successful does not imply that every successful person is necessarily an intelligent, hardworking, persevering person"

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Referenced in:

• Fooled by Randomness by Nassim Taleb

Examples:

• Survivorship Bias, Denominator Neglect
• Illusory Correlation
• Impressions of Causality