Goodreads asked Lucy Carter:

Where did you get the idea for your most recent book?

Lucy Carter My most recent book, which is called "Logicalard Fallacoid" was created out of my passionate hatred for stereotyping and people's inability to distinguish theories from concrete, confirmed certitudes. The former was motivated generally by my observations of popular culture's preconceived notions about people based on race and gender---for example, as seen with the case of George Floyd, African Americans are believed to be more likely to be culpable of crimes, but to correlate racial identification with the ability to commit a crime is obviously a theory created on the basis of a logical fallacy. (This is actually known as the causal fallacy.) Also, though statistics show that African Americans do commit more crimes, it is wrong to THEORIZE that the African American who inadvertently went beyond the speed limit had criminal intentions; don't just theorize! Look for the FACTS and ANALYZE the actual circumstances of the driver! You are theorizing about that driver by thinking about what's more PROBABLE, but not with what's more FACTUAL! I was not trying to be a pacifist, but a pragmatist. I thought it was concerning that people would yield to stereotyping, which is nothing more than a bunch of logical fallacies and a demonstration of people's inability to distinguish a theory from a fact. So yeah, that was how I got my idea for "Logicalard Fallacoid."

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