McNamara fallacy

List of fallacies

Allegory of the cave – Allegory by Plato

Goodhart's law – Adage about statistical measures

metric fixation – Tendency for decision-makers to place excessively large emphases on selected metrics

Newton's flaming laser sword – Verificationist principle

Occam's razor – Philosophical problem-solving principle

Streetlight effect – Bias from searching only where it is easy

surrogation – Psychological phenomenon; replacement of a construct with its measurement

truth – Conformity to reality

verificationism – Philosophical doctrine

verisimilitude – Resemblance to reality