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Fallacies

Recurring ways thinking goes wrong — named here so they're easier to catch in the wild.

McNamara fallacy

aka Quantitative fallacy

Making a decision based solely on quantitative observations (or metrics) and ignoring all others. The reason given is often that these other observations cannot be proven. Named for Robert McNamara, US Secretary of Defense from 1961 to 1968.