Overgeneralization and Slippery Slope

You visit a new country and the first person you meet in the airport is rude. You send a message to a friend back home that everyone in this new country is rude.

• Overgeneralization Fallacy (Hasty Generalization Fallacy)

• Slippery Slope Fallacy

If you break your diet and have one cookie tonight, you will just want to eat 10 cookies tomorrow, and before you know it, you will have gained back the 15 pounds you lost.

• Overgeneralization Fallacy (Hasty Generalization Fallacy)

• Slippery Slope Fallacy

Identify which type of fallacy does this conclusion convey.

Kevin's grandparents do not know how to use a computer. Kevin thinks that all older people must be computer illiterate.

• Slippery Slope Fallacy

• Overgeneralization Fallacy (Hasty Generalization Fallacy)

Which is an example of a Slippery Slope Fallacy?

• If you keep spending money on that, you won't ever buy anything else again.

• Since you have lost your job you must decrease your spending.

• You have to change your buying habits before you go broke.

You can never give anyone a break. If you do, they'll walk all over you."
This an example of a Slippery Slope Fallacy.

• True

• False

If we let the government implant tracking devices in criminals, it's not going to stop there! They're going to want to track school children and eventually everyone!

• Overgeneralization Fallacy (Hasty Generalization Fallacy)

• Slippery Slope Fallacy

Southerners talk fast. I was just on the phone with one, and I could barely keep up!

• Slippery Slope Fallacy

• Overgeneralization Fallacy (Hasty Generalization Fallacy)

If I let you go to the bathroom pretty soon everybody will want to go to the bathroom. This is an example of

• The Slippery Slope Fallacy

• Overgeneralization Fallacy (Hasty Generalization Fallacy))

Which fallacy is being used in the statement: 'If you allow students to redo their assignments, soon they'll expect to redo every test and exam, leading to chaos in the grading system'?

• A) Overgeneralization Fallacy

• B) Slippery Slope Fallacy

• C) Circular Reasoning

• D) Red Herring

Identify the fallacy: 'All teenagers are lazy because my neighbor's son, who is a teenager, never helps around the house.'

• A) Slippery Slope Fallacy

• B) Overgeneralization Fallacy

• C) Ad Hominem

• D) Straw Man