Before revision: The base rate fallacy, also called base rate neglect or base rate bias, is a type of fallacy in which people tend to ignore the base rate (e.g., general prevalence) in favor of the individuating information (i.e., information pertaining only to a specific case) of an occurrence and instead focus upon of the information just relating to that specific case.
After revision: The base rate fallacy, also called base rate neglect or base rate bias, is a type of fallacy in which people tend to ignore the base rate (e.g., general prevalence) of an occurrence and instead focus upon of the information just relating to that specific case.