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Post by Deleted on Oct 10, 2017 13:18:35 GMT -5
From "An Introduction to Formal Logic" by The Great Courses.
The Halo Effect:
"Psychologists define the halo effect as follows: If someone is successful or has a virtue in one way--for example, the person is successful in business--then we will take that as evidence that the person is an authority in whatever he or she does or says."
Sound familiar?
I will use this thread as I go along in the course.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 10, 2017 14:27:00 GMT -5
I've heard about it. I think it may be one of the reasons why celebrity endorsements do sometimes influence people. There is a related effect called Survivorship Bias:
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Post by Deleted on Oct 12, 2017 23:05:15 GMT -5
Yes, that's true about celebrity endorsements, Mcans. But I was more thinking about this last presidential election.
Also true for the election, when one candidate survived as the winner of all those primary candidates.
I haven't gotten any further in the course yet.
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