Post hoc fallacy

Quality:

Post hoc ergo propter hoc - informal fallacy. Article "Post hoc fallacy" in Simple English Wikipedia has 23.4 points for quality (as of August 1, 2024). The article contains 3 references and 2 sections.

This article has the best quality in Basque Wikipedia. However, the most popular language version of this article is English.

Since the creation of article "Post hoc fallacy", its content was written by 3 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 727 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 40 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 1635 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

  • Local (Simple English): #2415 in June 2018
  • Global: #8879 in January 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

  • Local (Simple English): #1788 in August 2022
  • Global: #32579 in June 2021

There are 37 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from August 1, 2024 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

Languages with the highest quality

#LanguageQuality gradeQuality score
1Basque (eu)
Post hoc ergo propter hoc
24.727
2Bulgarian (bg)
Post hoc ergo propter hoc
24.6315
3Hindi (hi)
यत् पूर्वम् तत्कारणम्’ काकतालीय दोष
23.4562
4Simple English (simple)
Post hoc fallacy
23.4012
5Croatian (hr)
Post hoc ergo propter hoc
23.2894
6French (fr)
Post hoc ergo propter hoc
23.0822
7Ukrainian (uk)
Фальшива причина
22.4972
8Italian (it)
Post hoc ergo propter hoc
22.0349
9English (en)
Post hoc ergo propter hoc
19.3516
10Serbo-Croatian (sh)
Post hoc ergo propter hoc
17.3852
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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

Most popular in all the time

The most popular language versions of the article "Post hoc fallacy" in all the time
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Post hoc ergo propter hoc
4 611 354
2Spanish (es)
Post hoc ergo propter hoc
622 488
3Italian (it)
Post hoc ergo propter hoc
185 557
4German (de)
Post hoc ergo propter hoc
182 850
5Portuguese (pt)
Post hoc ergo propter hoc
179 155
6Japanese (ja)
前後即因果の誤謬
172 600
7French (fr)
Post hoc ergo propter hoc
170 206
8Polish (pl)
Post hoc ergo propter hoc
137 720
9Dutch (nl)
Post hoc ergo propter hoc
122 797
10Chinese (zh)
後此謬誤
87 996
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

Most popular in July 2024

The most popular language versions of the article "Post hoc fallacy" in July 2024
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Post hoc ergo propter hoc
23 023
2Spanish (es)
Post hoc ergo propter hoc
1 855
3German (de)
Post hoc ergo propter hoc
1 183
4Japanese (ja)
前後即因果の誤謬
977
5Italian (it)
Post hoc ergo propter hoc
778
6Portuguese (pt)
Post hoc ergo propter hoc
478
7French (fr)
Post hoc ergo propter hoc
405
8Polish (pl)
Post hoc ergo propter hoc
292
9Chinese (zh)
後此謬誤
256
10Dutch (nl)
Post hoc ergo propter hoc
224
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

The highest AI

Language versions of the article "Post hoc fallacy" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Post hoc ergo propter hoc
213
2German (de)
Post hoc ergo propter hoc
143
3French (fr)
Post hoc ergo propter hoc
38
4Italian (it)
Post hoc ergo propter hoc
34
5Spanish (es)
Post hoc ergo propter hoc
33
6Dutch (nl)
Post hoc ergo propter hoc
25
7Portuguese (pt)
Post hoc ergo propter hoc
24
8Hungarian (hu)
Post hoc
17
9Hebrew (he)
פוסט הוק ארגו פרופטר הוק
16
10Polish (pl)
Post hoc ergo propter hoc
16
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

The highest AI in July 2024

Language versions of the article "Post hoc fallacy" with the highest AI in July 2024
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1Arabic (ar)
بعد هذا ثم بسبب هذا
0
2Azerbaijani (az)
Post hoc ergo propter hoc
0
3Bulgarian (bg)
Post hoc ergo propter hoc
0
4Catalan (ca)
Post hoc ergo propter hoc
0
5Danish (da)
Post hoc, ergo propter hoc
0
6German (de)
Post hoc ergo propter hoc
0
7Greek (el)
Post hoc ergo propter hoc
0
8English (en)
Post hoc ergo propter hoc
0
9Esperanto (eo)
Post hoc ergo propter hoc
0
10Spanish (es)
Post hoc ergo propter hoc
0
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

The highest CI

Language versions of the article "Post hoc fallacy" with the highest Citation Index (CI)
#LanguageCI awardRelative CI
1English (en)
Post hoc ergo propter hoc
390
2Arabic (ar)
بعد هذا ثم بسبب هذا
191
3Chinese (zh)
後此謬誤
184
4Ukrainian (uk)
Фальшива причина
140
5Persian (fa)
علت شمردن مقدم
124
6Spanish (es)
Post hoc ergo propter hoc
85
7Portuguese (pt)
Post hoc ergo propter hoc
83
8French (fr)
Post hoc ergo propter hoc
79
9Hebrew (he)
פוסט הוק ארגו פרופטר הוק
61
10Simple English (simple)
Post hoc fallacy
40
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Quality measures

Interwikis

#LanguageValue
arArabic
بعد هذا ثم بسبب هذا
azAzerbaijani
Post hoc ergo propter hoc
bgBulgarian
Post hoc ergo propter hoc
caCatalan
Post hoc ergo propter hoc
daDanish
Post hoc, ergo propter hoc
deGerman
Post hoc ergo propter hoc
elGreek
Post hoc ergo propter hoc
enEnglish
Post hoc ergo propter hoc
eoEsperanto
Post hoc ergo propter hoc
esSpanish
Post hoc ergo propter hoc
euBasque
Post hoc ergo propter hoc
faPersian
علت شمردن مقدم
fiFinnish
Post hoc ergo propter hoc
frFrench
Post hoc ergo propter hoc
glGalician
Post hoc ergo propter hoc
heHebrew
פוסט הוק ארגו פרופטר הוק
hiHindi
यत् पूर्वम् तत्कारणम्’ काकतालीय दोष
hrCroatian
Post hoc ergo propter hoc
huHungarian
Post hoc
idIndonesian
Post hoc ergo propter hoc
itItalian
Post hoc ergo propter hoc
jaJapanese
前後即因果の誤謬
koKorean
이 뒤에 따라서 이 때문에
nlDutch
Post hoc ergo propter hoc
noNorwegian
Post hoc ergo propter hoc
plPolish
Post hoc ergo propter hoc
ptPortuguese
Post hoc ergo propter hoc
roRomanian
Post hoc ergo propter hoc
shSerbo-Croatian
Post hoc ergo propter hoc
simpleSimple English
Post hoc fallacy
skSlovak
Post hoc, ergo propter hoc
srSerbian
Post hoc ergo propter hoc
svSwedish
Post hoc ergo propter hoc
thThai
Post hoc ergo propter hoc
trTurkish
Post hoc ergo propter hoc
ukUkrainian
Фальшива причина
zhChinese
後此謬誤

Popularity rank trends

Best Rank Simple English:
#1788
08.2022
Global:
#32579
06.2021

AI rank trends

Best Rank Simple English:
#2415
06.2018
Global:
#8879
01.2003

Local popularity rank history

Local AI rank history

Global AI rank history

Languages comparison

Important global interconnections

Wikipedia readers most often find their way to information on Post hoc ergo propter hoc from Wikipedia articles about Survivorship bias, Cum hoc ergo propter hoc, Fallacy, Argument from authority and Post hoc. Whereas reading the article about Post hoc ergo propter hoc people most often go to Wikipedia articles on Cum hoc ergo propter hoc, Informal fallacy, Fallacy, Apophenia and Cargo cult.

Cumulative results of quality and popularity of the Wikipedia article

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