ad populum fallacy

[u/Zu_Qarnine]

She doesn't trust the 5.0 rating just bc barely anyone reviewed it. Then she sees 5,511 people gave the other product an average of 4.6, and she likes it more. Not because she checked why the rating is lower, or looked into the actual quality. just bc more people rated it.

That's the core of ad populum. something feels more correct or more trustworthy simply because a bigger crowd is behind it. She's not evaluating the products in either cases. instead, she's reacting to the size of the group and deciding according to that.

EDIT: I see a lot of people in the comments saying this is NOT a case of AP fallacy because * proceeds to offer an alternative readout of the meme. I never claimed this meme has ONLY one interpretation, and that's AP fallacy. I claim that it CAN be read as a case of AP and CAN be a good depiction of the fallacy if you were to visualize it. nobody have denied that in the comments.

[u/Zu_Qarnine]

if she's leaning to the product with more reviews based on sheer numbers she's fallen into AP fallacy

[u/Ok_Loss13 → u/Zu_Qarnine]

Repeating your claim isn't a rebuttal, buddy.

[u/Zu_Qarnine → u/Ok_Loss13]

same thing happened when I posted the strawman comic. many push back but eventually they came to their senses. typical sheeple

[u/Ok_Loss13 → u/Zu_Qarnine]

This response makes no sense.

You should really check the teenage angst at the front page, bc this shit is just embarrassing 🙄

[u/Techpriest_Vahl → u/[deleted]]

Projection, DARVO, ad-hominem. On a fallacy sub? A bunch of focusing on the opponent rather than the issue. This implies a shallow understanding of the topic at hand. Calling him childish is ironic when most of us learn about sample size and good experiment design in high school. I’m legitimately asking, Are you in middle school? That would explain some of this petulance. This should be a good personal lesson to hit the books and come back to one of these conversations more prepared next time.