On Fallacies

Essays on High-status Fallacies

Title of document: ESSAYS ON HIGH-STATUS FALLACIES Daniel Malter, Doctor of Philosophy, 2012 Directed by: Professor Brent Goldfarb, Ph.D. Department of Management & Organization Robert H. Smith School of Business This dissertation comprises three essays. Each essay challenges some of the commonly held beliefs about and provides novel insights into the role of status in markets. In essay 1, I st...

On Some Prominent Fallacies in Epidemiology

menon are almost identical, and yet we never dream of calling the process general, or attributing it to a general cause. It is true its " prevalence" may be influenced by general conditions. Famine or sickness would render it less general; and plenty and health more general; yet it would be an absurdity to generalize the phenomenon or rather the aggregate of phenomena, as we are apt to treat th...

On Some Prominent Fallacies in Epidemiology

On the Pessimistic Induction and Two Fallacies

On Some Prominent Fallacies in Epidemiology

There is some thing in the history of the past which exercises a remarkable influence on the human mind. Evidence which, if it related to passing events, would be rejected and ridiculed, is accepted, when it refers to things of former years, with an amount of interest, faith, and veneration, which is very curious. Scepticism as to the present is considered a legitimate, nay, healthy, mental att...