{"id":69,"date":"2015-12-14T11:43:44","date_gmt":"2015-12-14T11:43:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/falacias.escepticos.es\/?page_id=69"},"modified":"2020-09-29T13:21:26","modified_gmt":"2020-09-29T11:21:26","slug":"falacia-del-francotirador","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/fallacies.escepticos.es\/index.php\/falacia-del-francotirador\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas sharpshooter fallacy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Painting the bullseye after shooting, or forcing data to tell us what we want.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/fallacies.escepticos.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/06eng-1.gif\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-354\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-766 size-full\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/fallacies.escepticos.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/06eng-1.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"512\"><\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"oculto\" style=\"visibility: hidden; display: none;\">\n<p id=\"p1\">https:\/\/fallacies.escepticos.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/06eng-1.gif<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<button onclick=\"copiarAlPortapapeles('p1')\">Click here to copy the image for your social network<\/button><\/p>\n<p>Source, <a href=\"https:\/\/es.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Falacia_del_francotirador\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">wikipedia<\/a><br \/>\nIn the Texas sharpshooter fallacy unrelated information is interpreted, manipulated or disguised until it makes some kind of sense. The name comes from a joke in which a shooter randomly shot at a barn, and after that he painted a bullseye around each hit and claimed to be a sharpshooter.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Example<\/strong><br \/>\nSomeone dreams of number 7.<br \/>\nNumber 7 didn\u2019t come out, but number 362 did.<br \/>\nNonetheless the premonition gets confirmed by claiming that 3+6-2 equals 7.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.falacias.org\/falacias\/falacia_del_francotirador\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Source of example<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>To refute it<\/strong><br \/>\nGenerally speaking, proving it is a fallacy could be relatively simple if we find a way to repeat the experiment. For example, in the case of this drawing, we could easily propose an alternative constellation of stars.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: grey; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 75%;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Whenever the source is not referenced, both definitions and examples have been extracted from a translation of Jaime Wilson jwilson@bytecr.com based on<em> Stephen\u2019s Guide to the Logical Fallacies<\/em>. Copyright 1995-1998 Stephen Downes. Brandon, Manitoba, Canada.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: grey; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 75%;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">These texts have been modified by Miguel A. Lerma and now by us <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">to adapt them -and those taken from Wikipedia- to our format.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Painting the bullseye after shooting, or forcing data to tell us what we want. https:\/\/fallacies.escepticos.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/06eng-1.gif Click here to copy the image for your social network Source, wikipedia In the Texas sharpshooter fallacy unrelated information is interpreted, manipulated or disguised until it makes some kind of sense. The name comes from a joke in which a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallacies.escepticos.es\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/69"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallacies.escepticos.es\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallacies.escepticos.es\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallacies.escepticos.es\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallacies.escepticos.es\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/fallacies.escepticos.es\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/69\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1078,"href":"https:\/\/fallacies.escepticos.es\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/69\/revisions\/1078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallacies.escepticos.es\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}