Talk:Third-cause fallacy
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Most common name of this fallacy?[edit]
I don't have any textbooks on this subject, but my googling suggests that 'ignoring a common cause' is a much more common name for this and 'third-cause fallacy' is rare. Does anyone have any evidence one way or the other? --Heron (talk) 15:42, 24 May 2009 (UTC)
Merge - change?[edit]
merge with Third Variable Problem??? Kassorlae (talk) 23:22, 10 January 2011 (UTC)
Ice Cream Murders[edit]
When I studied Logic in grad school the example used to explain the Third Cause Fallacy was a case in New York City known as the "Ice Cream Murders." It seems that statisticians noticed that the murder rate in NYC correlated almost perfectly with the sale of ice cream. The third cause of hot weather didn't come out immediately. OOPS! Dick Kimball (talk) 12:24, 11 April 2012 (UTC)
Tertium non datur?[edit]
English might not be my native language, but still I'd like to add something to this conversation. In my opinion this is the same thing as what they call a 'Tertium non datur' (Cfr.:'A third is not given') I might be wrong, but it's up to other people to decide whether I am. --TheDeadCatAlive (talk) 10:38, 16 February 2013 (CET)