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Noun Concept
Categories: Articles with short description, Inductive fallacies, Metaphors referring to people
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McNamara fallacy  McNamara fallacies  quantitative fallacies  quantitative fallacy
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The McNamara fallacy, named for Robert McNamara, the US secretary of defense from 1961 to 1968, involves making a decision based solely on quantitative observations and ignoring all others. Wikipedia
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The McNamara fallacy, named for Robert McNamara, the US secretary of defense from 1961 to 1968, involves making a decision based solely on quantitative observations and ignoring all others. Wikipedia
A bias disregarding what cannot be easily measured Wikipedia Disambiguation
making a decision based solely on quantitative observations (or metrics) and ignoring all others Wikidata
IS A
sampling bias
NAMED AFTER
Robert McNamara
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McNamara fallacy
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McNamara fallacy
Wikipedia Redirections
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McNamara fallacies, quantitative fallacy
Wikidata Alias
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quantitative fallacies, quantitative fallacy

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