I added a few entries recently. Currently, we have the following (in no particular order):
Mister P
The Secret Weapon
The Superplot
The Folk Theorem
The Pinch-Hitter Syndrome
Weakly Informative Priors
P-values and U-values
Conservatism
WWJD
Theoretical and Applied Statisticians
The Fallacy of the One-Sided Bet
Alabama First
The USA Today Fallacy
Second-Order Availability Bias
The "All Else Equal" Fallacy
The Self-Cleaning Oven
The Taxonomy of Confusion
The Blessing of Dimensionality
Scaffolding
Ockhamite Tendencies
Bayesian
Multiple Comparisons
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