I wouldn't exactly call the urban dictionary a reliable source.
Doing a DuckDuckGo for "apex fallacy" turns up a bunch of incel and mgtow sites.
Is this even a _real_ fallacy?
Doing a DuckDuckGo for "apex fallacy" turns up a bunch of incel and mgtow sites.
Is this even a _real_ fallacy?
It seems like it's a real mistake that people make. I guess one could categorize it as a more specific case of misunderstanding a distribution of values. (In the same vein as mean vs median, outlier skewing, assuming unimodal vs bimodal distribution, etc.)
I can see why that's not included in most lists of fallacies. It's just a specific example of cherry picking, a well known fallacy that is already included in the lists.
Such cases are likely the result of the ingroup half of the Ultimate Attribution Error, where positive characteristics are seen as inherent properties of members of the ingroup, but exceptional when displayed by members of the outgroup.