This video is not really about the conjunction fallacy—it’s more about Occam’s razor—but frankly, it presents a version of the razor that’s rather muddled.
IMO, traditional presentations of the razor are of much better quality. This video seems like a very bad introduction to the topic to me. It misses the idea of compressing theories as far as the data will allow, and instead promotes a rather dumbed down “hard to vary” → good, “easy to vary” → bad philosophy.
This video is not really about the conjunction fallacy—it’s more about Occam’s razor—but frankly, it presents a version of the razor that’s rather muddled.
IMO, traditional presentations of the razor are of much better quality. This video seems like a very bad introduction to the topic to me. It misses the idea of compressing theories as far as the data will allow, and instead promotes a rather dumbed down “hard to vary” → good, “easy to vary” → bad philosophy.