The Texas Sharpshooter Fallacy is a name given to researchers who find a random group of data points and draw an erroneous conclusion from them.

It’s an example of the Texas sharpshooter fallacy. Random facts being grouped together to give, more often than not, inaccurate meaning and conclusions. The element of randomness is overlooked.

The hot hand fallacy is thought to be closely related to the clustering illusion and the Texas sharpshooter fallacy—both of which involve the tendency to focus on what appear to be meaningful ...

Joe Bowman, a nationally known Texas sharpshooter who could blast an aspirin to powder at 30 paces and split a playing card edgewise at 20, died June 29 in Junction, Tex. He had been in ...

We've known for a long time that Ms. Brockovich used junk science to score a jackpot settlement. She used a common rhetorical trick, known as the Texas sharpshooter fallacy, to claim that a cluster of ...