Olumide Olasope

21 stories by Olumide Olasope

Everyone Cannot Be Wrong, Can They?

Introduction Going with the crowd can feel safe, a nice comfortable hedge for your opinion or position. But this...

Nov 18 · 1 min read >

Ice Cream Sells Air Conditioners

Introduction  If you have ever done any course in statistics, I am sure you are tired of hearing “correlation...

Nov 17 · 1 min read >

It Happened to a Friend

Introduction Still, on the journey of fallacies, we move to the one I call the “Whatsapp Mother” fallacy. We...

Nov 13 · 1 min read >

Prove What You Say

Introduction This is another one of the fallacies; it talks about the burden of proof and who should bear...

Nov 10 · 1 min read >

Grab Them By the Heart Strings

Introduction As we continue with the fallacies, we move to the fallacy of appeals to emotion. The description is...

Nov 8 · 2 min read >

Insult Your Way to Victory

Arguments that go down the road of personal attacks can easily lead to physical violence in some situations. Unless...

Nov 7 · 1 min read >

Fallacy Fallacy

Introduction Fallacies are false arguments that look correct on the surface but are proven wrong by digging deeper with...

Nov 6 · 1 min read >

The MBA & Me

Introduction It has been 2 months since the start of the MBA, and I am noticing how my thinking...

Nov 5 · 1 min read >

Managing Data as Managers

Introduction Some disciplines in the past would choose to exempt themselves from anything involving numbers. It may have worked...

Oct 31 · 1 min read >