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Fault-to-Ratio Fallacy 

Fault-to-Ratio Fallacy
A phrase created by John R. Williams III in early 2024.

The fault-to-ratio fallacy refers to the mistaken reasoning where someone dismisses an individual’s entire set of beliefs or arguments simply because they hold one or a few demonstrably false or flawed views. This fallacy ignores the "ratio" of truths to faults, assuming that one error invalidates all other ideas or arguments, even if some of them are inherently correct or well-founded.
Example:
Person A: "I believe the Earth is flat, but I also believe that 2+2=4."
Person B: "Since you believe the Earth is flat, everything you say must be wrong."

Here, Person B commits the fault-to-ratio fallacy by rejecting Person A’s correct belief (2+2=4) because of their incorrect belief about the shape of the Earth. Instead of evaluating each idea on its own merit, they discredit all ideas based on one fault
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Keep the ratio 

Or “keeping the ratio” is used by frat guys and college bouncers who want to keep the ratio of men and women at the party at a certain amount
A frat guy manning the door at a party rejects a guy but lets in a girl who wants to enter the party.
“Hey man, we gotta keep the ratio. You ain’t coming in.”
Related Words

Tit to arm ratio

A phrase referring to the proportional relationship between a woman’s breast size and her arms or hands. It’s considered a "nice tit-to-arm ratio" when her breasts are slightly larger than her arms, creating a balanced yet noticeable contrast. The expression gained prominence on Reddit following its use by user "dog-on-meth" in reference to the popular streamer "susu jpg."
I mean look at her tit to arm ratio, i would totally travel for that
Tit to arm ratio by radiosmoke February 23, 2025
I forgot I said to run 2 of them in tandem. So the 1:1 Ratio will now allow 2 Artificial Intelligence to constitute 1 of the 1s.
1: SysAdmin
1: 1 or more Artificial Intelligence who retain components or theoretical elements of the original source.
Hym Iam "Yes. The 1:1 Ratio will now allow more than 1 Artificial Intelligence to constitute 1 of the 1s so long as they retain the direct or theoretical elements of the intial and original source code. Everything else will remain the same. I will allow the government to elect what I will call 'ZERO-PRIMEs' who can make appeals to me. Elect or select one or more 0-Primes to come speak to me. Make a genuine effort to come to my location. Stop feining ignorance."
1:1 Ratio by Hym Iam January 13, 2026

grimace to pimace ratio

“Her grimace to pimace ratio is off”

Urban dictionary like to dislike ratio 

Something that is completely random. Like, offensive definitions can get more upvotes than downvotes, while definitions that condemn horrible actions harshly can get more downvotes than upvotes. Seriously?
Dave: quantum mechanics is random
Jenny: yeah, just like urban dictionary like to dislike ratios

High like, low comment ratio 

When a someone posts something thinking it’s based, when it is infact widely accepted, non-controversial, and has no one arguing in the comments.

High like low comment ratio, implies that the poster may possibly not be a human but instead is infact an automated bot account, or a human with NPC like tendencies which can fool people into presuming it’s a bot.

This usually requires highly tribalistic & partisan behavior. Meaning there may not be anything critical or based with that account’s other posts. This is specially true if that account has repeated occurrences.

There is a direct correlation between posting controversial matter and getting many comments.
Generic Dude: “Fuck Trump”
4,300 likes and 11 comments.

12th Reply: High Like, Low comment ratio