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Often you will hear stories in which injuries are clumped together in such a way as to make serious injuries seem much more common than they are. Here is a made-up, slightly exaggerated example: 47% of students in the South report that they have been violently assaulted, bullied or teased. Sounds like a very dire situation, but if one looks at the data: Violent assault - 0.1% Bullied - 4% Teased - 43% So while the numbers are true, they are, at the same time, somewhat misleading. Does this sort of 'fallacy' have a name?