Exam 7: Activity-Based Costing and Activity-Based Management

Identify any fallacies in the following passage either by naming them or, where they seem not to conform to any of the patterns described in the text, by giving a brief explanation of why the fallacious reasoning is irrelevant to the point at issue. This river has been changing its course every couple of years for the past few thousand years. Now they've decided that the banks need to be stabilized. Who do the Army Corps of Engineers think they are to come in here and decide they know something Mother Nature doesn't?

Identify the type of fallacy in the following passage. "There is only one way to solve this problem; that is the way our forefathers solved it."

Identify the type of fallacy in the following passage. "We had the worst inflation of my lifetime in the late '70s, then Ronald Reagan got elected and during his term in office it dropped from over thirteen percent to about four percent. Shows you what a smart president can do."

Identify any fallacies in the following passage either by naming them or, where they seem not to conform to any of the patterns described in the text, by giving a brief explanation of why the fallacious reasoning is irrelevant to the point at issue. So they came along and made me take my sign down because it was in violation of the city sign code. But look at the signs down in the next block, will you? They're under the same code, and they're just like the one I had to take down.

Identify the type of fallacy in the following passage. "Never trust that TV manufacturing company. I bought a TV from them and it got spoilt within a month!"

Identify the type of fallacy in the following passage. "My students' scores have improved dramatically since I started giving tests online, which indicates that students learn more on online courses."

Identify the type of fallacy in the following passage. "I'm reading right here about this high school teacher in Red Bluff? Caught dealing drugs right there at the school? They will let anyone teach these days."

Identify the type of fallacy in the following passage. "You start talking to these door-to-door missionaries, before you can blink they will be dragging you off to their church."

Identify the type of fallacy in the following passage. "Allison Fischer [a world-famous pool player] played snooker before she turned to American style 9-ball. It had to be the snooker that made her such a fine 9-ball player."

Identify the type of fallacy in the following passage. "Her information about deceased people comes from sources in another dimension."

Identify the type of fallacy in the following passage. "Fox News is totally biased. If you don't believe it, try listening to the Sean Hannity program."

Identify the type of fallacy in the following passage. "People who read a lot are less apt to suffer from dementia. So we recommend reading for all our older patients."

Identify the type of fallacy in the following passage. "I have every right to burn tires in my back yard. It's a free country."

Identify the type of fallacy in the following passage. "People who play bingo twice a week live on average seven years longer than people who stay at home. Playing bingo can lengthen your life."

Identify the type of fallacy in the following passage. "Mike blew a tire on the way over here. Make a note never to buy Goodyear tires."

Identify the type of fallacy in the following passage. "Smoking behind our back will only lead to a life of crime, Junior."