Luddite Fallacy

Bad reasoning rarely announces itself. Luddite Fallacy walks in dressed as good sense and leaves with your wallet.

The fallacy survives because it is comfortable. It lets you keep your conclusion and skip the work. The cure is unfashionable: slow down, ask what the evidence actually shows, and let the conclusion follow.

In every examination hall there are two kinds of silence: the silence of those who prepared, and the silence of those who are preparing excuses. The room can hear the difference.

Learning is the one wealth that survives every partition of fortune. Do not memorise it. Notice it. Noticing is the senior discipline.