WorksheetsLogical Fallacies
Total questions: 14
Worksheet time: 7mins
Children should not go trick or treating, as there always
exists the possibility that someone could poison the treats.
Ad Hominem
Hasty Generalization
Restricted Options
Appeal to Fear
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 believe in capital punishment, you are a conservative.
Slippery Slope
Ad Hominem
Restricted Options
Band Wagon
If you eat a good diet, you will never have a heart attack.
Misplaced cause and effect
Band Wagon
Ambiguity
Hasty Generalization
Children who play violent video games act more violently than those who don’t.
Appeals to emotion
Slippery Slope
Misplaced cause & effect
Ad Hominem
Eighty-five percent of those surveyed said that it is important to have a cell phone.
Bandwagon
Slippery Slope
Misplaced Cause and Effect
Restricted Options
Only a selfish, non-caring person would believe that this is ok.
Ad Hominem
Band Wagon
Appeals to emotion
Slippery Slope
Asthma can be reversed, as my sister cured hers buy spending fifteen minutes out in the cold every day last winter.
Hasty Generalization
Misplaced Cause and Effect
Slippery Slope
Insufficient Evidence
Everyone knows that teenagers are lazy
Ad Hominem
Band Wagon
Appeals to Emotion
Hasty Generalization
If we don’t teach teens to work harder, the human race is doomed.
Band Wagon
Appeal to Fear
Insufficient Evidence
Restricted Options
A survey of my English class shows that only fifteen percent of teens are expected to do chores.
Band Wagon
Hasty Generalization
Slippery Slope
Insufficient Evidence
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
If you love your family, you'll buy this new stealth
security system.
Band Wagon
Appeal to Fear
Restricted Options
Hasty Generalization
“Your coach’s policy is that no one can be a starter on game day if they miss practice. So, if you miss basketball practice today, you won’t be a starter in Friday’s game. Then you won’t be the first freshman to start on the Varsity basketball team at our school.”
Band Wagon
Slippery Slope
Hasty Generalization
Ad Hominem
