Although my little digression towards stupidity was good reminder that P(x) is only known to be greater than or equal to P(x and y). If I change the question to “Is Linda more likely to be the Sun, or be the Sun and a feminist” then people are probably going to get the question right. In fact, the assumption that there is at least one bank teller is the fallacy from the very next episode, apparently:
Just remember when you accuse someone of a logical fallacy that assuming there is a bank teller is a logical fallacy (stating that there is a bank teller as an assumption is not and pointing out logical fallacies that can be remedied by adding assumptions that everyone agrees on is a dickheaded waste of time, but still, this is how logical fallacies work). People commit a lot of logical fallacies and get things right anyway (which goes back to my earlier statement that if logical were bridge engineering I’d stay off of bridges).
