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To me a red herring has always been a clue that diverts the reader's attention. It's most popular, I believe, in detective stories, where the red herring will point at one person as the criminal only to have the real criminal revealed later on. Thus, it makes the outcome less predictable. Before learning of the correct term for the technique, I use to think of it as "throwing sand to the readers's eyes" (literal translation of a Portuguese saying) because the objective was to keep the reader from seeing the (fictional) 'reality'.

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