Statistics can sometimes produce misleading conclusions. A turkey is fed every day for a thousand days by a butcher. Each day strengthens the turkey’s belief, with increasing statistical confidence, that butchers love turkeys. Then the turkey is killed, sold, and eaten. This is known as a:

 
 
 
 
 
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