All of us are victims of this fallacy as jumping the bandwagon is easier done these days, what with influencers and the WhatsApp universities galore!
The bandwagon fallacy is the logical error of assuming that a claim is true just as a behavior is often considered correct simply because it is popular.
It is also known as "argumentum ad populum" which means an appeal to popularity. This type of argument relies on the size of the crowd endorsing it and on the social pressure thus exerted rather than on actual evidence.
The best examples of this fallacy would be in the worlds of advertising and/or politics because both depend in a way on the "millions cannot be wrong" mentality. The XYZ diet fad, for instance, is right because many follow it!
Pratima Agnihotri
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