Over-generalization correct answers The students at Yale are a bunch of thieves. I was on a ski trip with some Yale students and my wallet was stolen.
Bad Sample correct answers What do you mean your wedding cake was bad? I gave you samples to try before you even ordered it?
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Over-generalization correct answers The students at Yale are a bunch of thieves. I was on a ski
trip with some Yale students and my wallet was stolen.
Bad Sample correct answers What do you mean your wedding cake was bad? I gave you samples
to try before you even ordered it?
Fallacy of Composition correct answers This new car features the finest engine, axle, electrical
system, and chassis. It must be the best car on the market.
Fallacy of Division correct answers Beth must be an excellent chef. She graduated from Le
Cordon Bleu.
Fallacy of Negative Proof correct answers No "rational explanation" has ever been offered to
explain away the results of Voodoo. Many eyewitnesses recount first hand experience with
trances, zombies, and curses. The effects of Voodoo must be real.
Fallacy of False Consequences correct answers Vote for Smith or pay high taxes.
Complex Question correct answers Did you stop beating your wife?
Slippery Slope (Chain Reaction) correct answers We cannot legalize marijuana. Marijuana is
known as a "gateway" drug, which means marijuana users will eventually use harder drugs like
heroin or crack cocaine. If all of our youth start smoking crack cocaine, our entire society will
crumble.
Coincidence (post hoc ergo prompter hoc) correct answers Television causes obesity. Americans
are twice as likely to be fat today as they were in 1945.
Shared Cause correct answers Your fever is causing you to break out in a rash.
Insignificant Cause correct answers Using hairspray is causing a hole in the ozone layer.
Multiple Causation correct answers His heart attack was caused by eating too much red meat
Reversed Causation correct answers I drank more because I was losing my job.
Appeal To Sympathy correct answers You have to give me a passing grade. I spent 150 hours on
that project and missed every party this quarter.
Appeal To Force correct answers If you don't agree to sign the labor agreement, we'll fire you.
Appeal To Consequence correct answers Evolution cannot be true. If it were true, we'd all be
smelly apes.
, Appeal To Popularity correct answers Everyone knows that Japanese DVD players are the best.
After all, the outshell American players two to one.
Loaded Language correct answers Smart mothers buy Ploopis peanut butter.
Ad Hominem Attack correct answers Boris is not qualifiedto make suggestions about our penal
system. As an exconvict, he would always take the criminals' side.
False Analogy correct answers Running the government is like running a business. You can't
keep running into debt and expect to be successful.
Red Herring correct answers We must eliminate affirmative action. We can't rely on laws to end
racial prejudice.
appeal to emotion correct answers Persuasion by emotional rather than intellectual means
Argument against the person correct answers Arguing against a another's argument by attacking
that person's character or conduct
False analogy correct answers Supporting a conclusion by means of an apparent analogy without
justifying the proposition
that the two arguments are actually worthy of comparison
Red herring correct answers Offering a deliberately misleading premise
Straw man correct answers Distorting an opponent's argument in order to make it easier to defeat
Absolute properties versus relative properties correct answers Using a relative property (or
percentage) as a premise and an absolute property (or number)
as a conclusion
Missing the point correct answers Drawing an irrelevant, mistaken, or overbroad conclusion;
jumping to conclusions
Argument from ignorance correct answers Concluding that something is true because it has not
been proven false, or vice versa
Appeal to inappropriate authority correct answers Citing an expert as support for an argument in
a field beyond the expert's expertise
False cause correct answers Confusing correlation with causation, or switching a cause and an
effect
Hasty Generalization correct answers Drawing a broad conclusion on the basis of a small or
unfair sample
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