Bill spends hundreds of dollars a month buying lottery tickets hoping to get rich because he barely earns minimum wage. bill is aware that the odds of winning any amount in the lottery are 1 in 7 million. bill is guilty of:

The answer is base rate fallacy.

Explanation:

This type of fallacy describes someone who is willing to ignore general statistics because they think it won't apply to a specific situation. This reasoning might be used in debates or, in this example, for self-deception (as a defense mechanism).

Some experiments have shown that most people reccur to this fallacy. In other words, they prefer specific to general information.

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panem is a communist totalitarian dictatorship where all the resources and how they are allocated belongs to the capitol. the districts exist only to provide goods and services for the capital and most of the citizens live in poverty. it is a police state where the "peacekeepers" use force and threats to keep the people under control. dissent is outlawed and those who disobey the law are executed, flogged, or turned into avoxes. the games are another means in which the ruling elite in the capitol exert their power over the districts. when reading the books i drew parallels between panem and the soviet union and north korea. in no way is panem capitalist. the people in the capitol are wealthy but the majority of them are involved in the government somehow. it was the same way in the former soviet union where bigwigs in the communist party and high ranking government officials were given access to goods, services, medical treatments not available to the general public. if you think panem has a capitalist economy you need to brush up on your economics.