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Made by Isaac Lalonde

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Definition: There are some practices or beliefs that were used long ago that people still try to cling to that clearly don't work but are seen as "ancient wisdom"

Connection: rain follows the plow was a belief that if humans began to settle in a particular climate rainfall would permanently increase there so they could survive.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rain_follows_the_plow

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Definition: using an authoritative person or body of people to add credibility where there is none.

Connection: Donald trump the president of one of the most influential countries on the planet denies climate change so some people take his word as true.

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confusion of causation with correlation #5

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confusion of causation with correlation #5

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Definition: When two variables are found to be correlated, it is tempting to assume that this shows that one variable causes the other when that is often not the case.

Connection: in this comic the first stick man says 100% of people who breath die which is correlation but not causation as breathing keeps us alive, while the other guy say !00% of people who don't breathe die which is an actual correlation.

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Definition:  during an argument something that is or is intended to be misleading or distracting

Connection: the mother intentionally distracts her daughter by telling her if the rush home she has a treat for her to make her forget about the toy she wants.

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Definition: people believe our lives are run by invisible beings such as gods or aliens having a purpose for everything.

Connection: the christian in this believes god gave us the sun and that god has a purpose for us all.

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Definition: looking for proof of a subject and only paying attention to items that could prove your theory and none that would disprove it

Connection: the main stick figure avoids the many nay sayers but decides to instead go stand with the one person who agrees.

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Definition: humans tend to pick up patterns where there are no real patterns like faces in toast and so on.

Connection: you can see a face in this bathtub where the spout is eyes and nose and the overflow is the mouth.

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Definition: we are more likely to believe something if we connect to it emotionally such as psychics talking to dead relatives.

Connection: the lady is asking the repair man for him to feel bad for her broken toaster to see if that will help him fix it