Logical Fallacies

Identify the logical fallacy in the following statement: "Working conditions could be improved if women workers did not take so much time off for sick leave."

• post hoc ergo propter hoc

• red herring

• false statistics

Identify the logical fallacy in the following statement: "She couldn't sleep last night, so she failed the quiz this morning."

• post hoc ergo propter hoc

• false statistics

• stereotype

Identify the logical fallacy in the following statement: "The USA, in formulating and applying its foreign policy, must choose between a return to strict isolationism and total global management."

• stereotype

• false statistics

• oversimplification

Identify the logical fallacy in the following statement: "People in developing countries cannot govern themselves."

• false statistics

• stereotype

• post hoc ergo propter hoc

Identify the logical fallacy in the following statement: "Everyone who works for General Motors is rich: the median salary is $50,000 a year."

• red herring

• hasty generalization

• post hoc ergo propter hoc

Identify the logical fallacy in the following statement: "Of course, Hawaii is the healthiest spot in the world. Life expectancy for men is 80.1 years, compared with 68.2 years for men on the mainland."

• hasty generalization

• stereotype

• post hoc ergo propter hoc

Identify the logical fallacy in the following statement: "The airport is obviously unsafe. There have been three crashes there in as many years."

• stereotype

• red herring

• false statistics

Identify the logical fallacy in the following statement: "Ban aerosol sprays, or we will all die of skin cancer."

• false statistics

• oversimplification

• stereotype