The final sin I want to talk about is probably the most common, and it's called the Texas sharpshooter fallacy.
我想讲的最后的一个谬误,可能是最常见的,它叫做德克萨斯神枪手谬误。
In the book in which the essay "The Intentional Fallacy" appeared, a book called The Verbal Icon, Wimsatt collaborated with Monroe Beardsley on three essays, and this is one of them.
意图谬误“是文萨特与比尔兹利一起,为一本叫做《语言象征》的书,写的三篇文章中的一篇。
When I was talking about various sins one can commit with statistics.
我上节课讲到,统计学常见的谬误。
One is this is very different from the Prisoner's Dilemma.
第一,协和谬误与囚徒困境不一样
This would be one of the fallacies we looked at before right?
这是我们之前看到,过的一种谬误,对吗?
What they did is, they looked at 12 months, they took the months with the most births in it, which happened to be June, and calculated the probability of 3 percent.
俄克拉荷马神枪手谬误,他们看了十二个月的人数,然后选择了出生人数最多的一个月?,正好是6月,然后计算出3%的概率。
This kind of game is called a "Coordination problem."
这个博弈叫"协和谬误"
It is the only form of knowledge free from the fallacy of unmediated expression--in other words, free from the fallacy that when I say "It is raining," I mean I'm a meteorologist and I mean it is raining.
它是唯一能免于未适当表达的谬误的一种知识形式,换句话说,免于一种谬误,比如,当我说“天在下雨“时“,我的意思是,我是一个气象学家,并且我的意思是天在下雨。
Is that right? They were pure coordination problems.
它们是仅仅是协和谬误
We'll talk about the Oklahoma sharpshooter fallacy.
我们现在来讲。俄克拉何马神枪手谬误。
We'll talk about coordination problems later on.
协和谬误的问题我们以后再讨论
So we learned the very first time that in the Prisoner's Dilemma communication per se won't help, but in the coordination problem, which could be just as serious socially as a Prisoner's Dilemma, in a coordination problem it may well help.
在第一讲里我们就学到了,在囚徒困境中沟通不起作用,但是在和囚徒困境具有,同样重要社会意义的协和谬误中,交流却能够起到作用
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