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	Misleading Vividness
		Misleading Vividness is a fallacy in which a very small number of particularly dramatic events are taken to outweigh a significant amount of statistical evidence.
		This sort of "reasoning" is fallacious because the mere fact that an event is particularly vivid or dramatic does not make the event more likely to occur, especially in the face of significant statistical evidence.
		People often accept this sort of "reasoning" because particularly vivid or dramatic cases tend to make a very strong impression on the human mind.
	www.hebrew4christians.com /Clear_Thinking/Informal_Fallacies/Misleading_Vividness/misleading_vividness.html (654 words)

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	vividness - OneLook Dictionary Search
		Tip: Click on the first link on a line below to go directly to a page where "vividness" is defined.
		noun: chromatic purity: freedom from dilution with white and hence vividness of hue
		Words similar to vividness: chroma, color, colour, intensity, saturation, vivid, more...
	www.onelook.com /?w=vividness&ls=a (110 words)

	Misleading Vividness
		Dramatic or vivid event X occurs (and is not in accord with the majority of the statistical evidence).
		For example, if a person survives a particularly awful plane crash, he might be inclined to believe that air travel is more dangerous than other forms of travel.
		After all, explosions and people dying around him will have a more significant impact on his mind than will the rather dull statistics that a person is more likely to be struck by lightning than killed in a plane crash.
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	Kids.Net.Au - Encyclopedia > Misleading vividness (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The logical fallacy of Misleading vividness involves describing some occurrence in vivid detail, even if it is an exceptional occurrence, to convince someone that it is a problem.
		Though misleading vividness does nothing to support an argument logically, it can have a very strong psychological effect.
		Anne: "I am giving up extreme sports now I have children.
	www.kids.net.au /encyclopedia-wiki/mi/Misleading_vividness (174 words)

	misleading - OneLook Dictionary Search
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		Misleading : Online Plain Text English Dictionary [home, info]
		Phrases that include misleading: conduct misleading, list of misleading brand names of food, misleading vividness
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		The logical fallacy of misleading vividness involves describing some occurrence
		in vivid detail, even if it is an exceptional occurrence,...
		Countless consumers nationwide are victimized by misleading advertisers who
	www.howstuffworks.com /search2.php?pg=&server=www.howstuffworks.com&terms=misleading (410 words)

	Misleading vividness
		Though misleading vividness does nothing to support an argument logically, it can have a very strong psychological effect because of a cognitive heuristic called the availability heuristic.
		It would probably kill you and be much worse than being shot."
		This fallacy is a kind of hasty generalization when an inductive generalization is a necessary premise and a single (albeit vivid) example is not sufficient to support such a generalization.
	www.xasa.com /wiki/en/wikipedia/m/mi/misleading_vividness.html (224 words)

	Fallacies [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy]
		When the fallacy of jumping to conclusions is committed due to a special emphasis on an anecdote or other piece of evidence, then the fallacy of misleading vividness has occurred.
		The vivid anecdote is the story about Uncle Harry.
		Too much emphasis is placed on it and not enough on the statistics from the Surgeon General.
	www.iep.utm.edu /f/fallacy.htm (13702 words)

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