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Texas sharpshooter fallacy: a standalone construct

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the error of defining a pattern or hypothesis after seeing the data, so a chance cluster or match looks more meaningful than it is.

In statistics, Texas sharpshooter fallacy refers to the error of defining a pattern or hypothesis after seeing the data, so a chance cluster or match looks more meaningful than it is. This meaning comes from Thompson (2009) in Law, Probability and Risk.[1]

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References

Thompson, W. C. (2009). Painting the target around the matching profile: the Texas sharpshooter fallacy in forensic DNA interpretation. Law, Probability and Risk, 8(3), 257-276. https://doi.org/10.1093/lpr/mgp013

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