How you can avoid committing the "conjunction fallacy"

i meant the ontological fact that a female bank teller is going to be a few % more likely to be-or-not-be a feminist, than people on average.

the sentence structure is also important. for the record, i also hate things like this unless they’re explicitly presented as puzzles (i.e. meant to be smart-ass bullshit for smart-ass bullshitters, which is just fine imho).

however much of a fallacy this may or may not be, it seems more fallacious to take people’s poor performance on these “tests” as meaningful evidence about anything apart from these tests themselves.

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