Logical Fallacies - Statistics

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This quiz has been taken 87 times
The average score is 9 of 24

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
Attacking your opponent's character or personal traits in an attempt to undermine their argument	Ad hominem	87%
You misrepresented someone's argument to make it easier to attack	Strawman	81%
Asserting that if we allow A to happen, then Z will consequently happen too, therefore A should not happen	Slippery Slope	68%
Saying that because an authority thinks something, it must therefore be true	Appeal to Authority	54%
Manipulating an emotional response in place of a valid or compelling argument	Appeal to Emotion	49%
Appealing to popularity or the fact that many people do something as an attempted form of validation	Bandwagon	46%
Presuming that because a claim has been poorly argued, or a fallacy has been made, that the claim itself must be wrong	Fallacy Fallacy	44%
Making the argument that because something is 'natural' it is therefore valid, justified, inevitable, good, or ideal	Appeal to Nature	38%
A circular argument in which the conclusion is included in the premise	Begging the Question	38%
Asking a question that has a presumption built into it so that it can't be answered without appearing guilty	Loaded Question	34%
Saying that the burden of proof lies not with the person making the claim, but with someone else to disprove	Burden of Proof	32%
Presuming that a real or perceived relationship between things means that one is the cause of the other	False Cause	32%
Avoiding having to engage with criticism by turning it back on the accuser - answering criticism with criticism	Tu quoque	32%
Saying that a compromise, or middle point, between two extremes is the truth	Middle Ground	29%
Believing that 'runs' occur to statistically independent phenomena such as roulette wheel spins	Gambler's Fallacy	28%
Using double meanings or ambiguities of language to mislead or misrepresent the truth	Ambiguity	26%
Using personal experience or an isolated example instead of a valid argument, especially to dismiss statistics	Anecdotal	26%
Judging something good or bad on the basis of where it comes from, or from whom it comes	Genetic	26%
Cherry-picking data clusters to suit an argument, or finding a pattern to fit a presumption	Texas Sharpshooter	25%
Making what could be called an appeal to purity as a way to dismiss relevant criticisms or flaws of an argument	No True Scotsman	22%
Assuming that what's true about one part of something has to be applied to all, or other, parts of it	Composition	21%
Saying that because one finds something difficult to understand that it's therefore not true	Personal Incredulity	21%
Moving the goalposts or making up exceptions when a claim is shown to be false	Special Pleading	19%
Where two alternative states are presented as the only possibilities, when in fact more possibilities exist	Black or White	18%

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