Fallacies strengthen a speaker's credibility.

Hasty generalizations are faulty arguments that occur because the sample chosen is too large or represents too many different types of people.

This represents a false premise: All birds have two legs. I have two legs. Therefore, I am a bird.

The evidence at hand is considered to be circumstantial evidence.

A causal relationship means that one event brings about another.

Correlated events happen at the same time, but one event does not necessarily cause the other.

Many speakers manipulate statistics to misrepresent facts.

A false analogy compares two things that are the same.

When your argument assumes that whatever you are trying to prove is true, you are ignoring the question.

Begging the question is a strategy speakers often use to divert the attention of the audience from the matter at hand.

A post hoc fallacy is an error in reasoning that involves assuming that one event cause another simply because it happens before the other.

This is an example of "begging the question:" A child asks her father, "How do you like my pretty dress?"

Circumstantial evidence proves a conclusion.