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Texas sharpshooter fallacy
Texas sharpshooter fallacy, also called clustering illusion or post hoc pattern fitting: finding a pattern in data after the fact and presenting it as predicted, named for painting a bullseye around barn-wall bullet holes; first in print in 1977 via Seymour Grufferman.
Thai Americans
Thai Americans: U.S. residents identifying as Thai, about 340,000 in 2023, the 10th-largest Asian origin group; mostly post-1965 immigrants concentrated in Los Angeles, with Theravada Buddhist temples as community centers.
Thai Chinese (泰国华人)
Thai Chinese (泰国华人) are people in Thailand of Chinese ancestry from five dialect groups, Teochiu, Hakka, Hainanese, Cantonese, Hokkien, who have undergone unusually thorough assimilation into Thai society through intermarriage, education, and language shift.
Thai people
Thai people (ชาวไทย): Tai-speaking majority of Thailand, comprising Central, Northeastern (Isan/Thai-Lao), Northern (Khon Muang), and Southern Thai groups, descended from migrants from southern China and Yunnan, distinct from Sino-Thai and Malay Muslim minorities.
Thaification
Thaification (kan klai pen thai): Thailand's assimilationist nation-building policy making minorities Thai via language, schooling, and nationality law; defined by the 1939-1942 Twelve Cultural Mandates under Phibunsongkram, later partly reversed.
Thananon Charnvirakul
Thananon Charnvirakul, nicknamed Ja, is the wife of Thai Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul; she joins state visits to Vietnam, Malaysia, China, and Australia and hosts spousal cultural diplomacy.
Thank God for Mississippi
"Thank God for Mississippi" is an American adage, especially Southern, used when a state ranks near the bottom of national tables because Mississippi ranks last. First in print 1945; fading in education after the Mississippi Miracle.
Thatcher effect
Thatcher effect, or Thatcher illusion, named after Margaret Thatcher: inverting eyes and mouth in an upright face looks grotesque, but the change is hard to detect when the whole face is upside down, showing holistic face processing in humans and some primates.
The Anxious Generation
The Anxious Generation (2024) by Jonathan Haidt argues the shift from play-based to phone-based childhood caused a youth mental-health crisis, proposing four norms and inspiring phone-free school policies, while critics dispute its causal evidence.
The Art of Seduction
The Art of Seduction (2001) is Robert Greene's second book, after The 48 Laws of Power, presenting seduction as strategic social power via historical case studies and a 24-step method; criticized as amoral and linked to pickup-artist culture.
The Bell Curve
The Bell Curve (1994) by Richard Herrnstein and Charles Murray argues IQ drives class structure and social outcomes, using NLSY data; its race and heritability claims drew major scientific and public controversy.
The Better Angels of Our Nature
The Better Angels of Our Nature is Steven Pinker's 2011 Viking book arguing violence has declined across history, measured in relative death rates, driven by the state, commerce, and reason; contested by historians and statisticians.
The Century of the Self
The Century of the Self is a 2002 four-part BBC documentary series by Adam Curtis on how Freud's theories, applied by his nephew Edward Bernays, shaped public relations, advertising, consumerism, and politics.
The Cut (publication)
The Cut (thecut.com) is New York magazine's women-focused digital vertical, founded 2008 as a fashion blog and expanded in 2012; sections style, self, culture, power; under Vox Media, then Lupa Systems from 2026.
The Death and Life of Great American Cities
The Death and Life of Great American Cities (Jane Jacobs, 1961) critiques urban renewal and Le Corbusier-style planning, setting out four generators of diversity, eyes-on-the-street safety, and mixed-use, small-block, aged-building urbanism.
The Denial of Death
The Denial of Death (1973) is Ernest Becker's Pulitzer-winning book arguing that death denial drives human culture; it inspired terror management theory, whose mortality salience effect now faces major replication failures.
The dress
The Dress: a February 2015 Tumblr-viral photo of a blue and black dress that half the internet saw as white and gold, launching major vision-science research on illumination priors and color constancy.
The Establishment
The Establishment: term for a society's institutional power-holding class (civil service, government, armed forces, Church), fixed in British usage by Henry Fairlie's 1955 Spectator article after A. J. P. Taylor's 1953 New Statesman use, later adopted by Wilson, Thatcher, and American writers.
The Ethical Slut
The Ethical Slut, also known as the "Poly Bible," is a self-help book by Dossie Easton and Janet W. Hardy that presents non-monogamy as a valid choice.
The Evolution of Cooperation
The Evolution of Cooperation, Robert Axelrod's 1984 Basic Books classic, shows cooperation emerging among egoists via repeated prisoner's dilemma tournaments won by Anatol Rapoport's Tit for Tat strategy.
The Family International
The Family International (TFI), formerly the Children of God, The Family of Love, and The Family, is a Christian new religious movement founded in 1968 by David Berg in Huntington Beach, California; reorganized in 2010 into an online network of about 1,100 members after decades of child abuse controversy.
The Female Eunuch
The Female Eunuch, Germaine Greer's 1970 feminist polemic (MacGibbon & Kee; McGraw-Hill 1971), argues patriarchal femininity renders women eunuchs; instant bestseller, second-wave classic, banned in Rhodesia, sequel The Whole Woman 1999.
The Feminine Mystique
The Feminine Mystique, Betty Friedan's 1963 Norton book naming 'the problem that has no name,' critiqued postwar American housewifery and is widely credited with igniting second-wave US feminism, amid lasting criticisms of its white middle-class focus.
The Five Love Languages
The Five Love Languages is Gary Chapman's 1992 relationship framework naming five ways of expressing love (words of affirmation, quality time, gifts, acts of service, physical touch) with a claimed primary language; recent studies find limited empirical support.
The Game: Penetrating the Secret Society of Pickup Artists
The Game: Penetrating the Secret Society of Pickup Artists is Neil Strauss's 2005 nonfiction memoir, written under the pseudonym Style, about two years inside the seduction community with Mystery; a 3-million-copy bestseller that popularized pickup artistry.
The Gift of Fear
The Gift of Fear (1997) by Gavin de Becker, subtitled Survival Signals That Protect Us from Violence, is a bestselling personal safety book arguing that intuition warns of danger; covers pre-attack behavior, stalking, and domestic violence, with noted criticism of its evidence base.
The Giving Pledge
The Giving Pledge, founded 2010 by Bill Gates, Melinda French Gates, and Warren Buffett, is a nonbinding promise by 250+ billionaires from 30 countries to give at least half their wealth to charity in life or wills.
The Good Judgment Project
The Good Judgment Project, led by Philip Tetlock and Barbara Mellers at the University of Pennsylvania, won IARPA's 2011-2015 ACE geopolitical forecasting tournament using training, superforecaster teams, and aggregation, spawning Good Judgment Inc and Superforecasting.
The Greatest Indian
The Greatest Indian: 2012 poll by Outlook, CNN-IBN and History TV18 to name the greatest Indian after Gandhi; B.R. Ambedkar won ahead of Kalam and Patel via jury, public vote and ACNielsen survey.
The Happiness Trap
The Happiness Trap, Russ Harris's 2007 self-help book (2nd ed. 2022), presents Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, six core processes of psychological flexibility, defusion, acceptance, values, and committed action, for general readers.