Unit 9 Flex day

A fallacy that occurs when a person uses a sample that is too small or too specific to be representative of a population is known as what?

• Hasty Generalization

• Ad Hominem

• False Analogy

• Straw Man

Which fallacy is committed when someone attacks a person's character rather than what he or she is saying?

• Slippery Slope

• Ad Hominem

• Red Herring

• Appeal to Ignorance

What is the fallacy called when someone incorrectly asserts that two or more things are the same, simply because they share some characteristics?

• False Analogy

• Straw Man

• Red Herring

• Appeal to Authority

Identify the fallacy that occurs when someone changes their opponent's argument, and then refutes this "new" version of the argument.

• Straw Man

• Slippery Slope

• Hasty Generalization

• False Cause

What is the name of the fallacy that occurs when irrelevant information is presented alongside relevant information, distracting attention from that relevant information?

• Red Herring

• Appeal to Emotion

• Bandwagon

• False Dilemma

When a person says that two things are alike in multiple ways just because they are alike in one way, which fallacy are they committing?

• False Analogy

• Hasty Generalization

• Slippery Slope

• Non Sequitur

If you allow one student to take an online course, soon

everyone will want to, and the schools will be empty.

• Slippery Slope

• Band Wagon

• Ambiguity

• Insufficient Evidence

If you eat a good diet, you will never have a heart attack.

• Misplaced cause and effect

• Band Wagon

• Ambiguity

• Hasty Generalization

Everyone seems to support the changes in the vacation policy, and if everyone likes them, they must be

good.

• Slippery Slope

• Band Wagon

• Misplaced Cause and Effect

• Ambiguity

Everyone knows that teenagers are lazy

• Ad Hominem

• Band Wagon

• Appeals to Emotion

• Hasty Generalization