Fallacy
Two people try to work out the outcome of the Russo-Japanese War by pure deduction instead of looking it up.
Content note: References a historical war (lightly).
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Cartoon by Ben Orlin, Math with Bad Drawings. https://cartoons.mathwithbaddrawings.com/2017-07-07-fallacy/ (CC BY-NC 4.0)Transcript
A: "We know there was something called the Russo-Japanese War. And we know that both Russia and Japan still exist."
B: "So... it must have been a tie."
[Caption] "The Mathematician's Fallacy: Believing that all information can be deduced from first principles."