Exam 6: Performance Evaluation: Variance Analysis

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. "Look, the governor's office is supposed to list chemicals that are suspected to be poisonous, but let's not put them on the list officially until we know for sure that they're harmful. Otherwise, we just cause a lot of unnecessary trouble for the people who make and use the chemicals."

Identify any fallacies in the following passage. "That Ehrman fellow started off as a fairly fundamentalist religious person, but after all that education and study, he finally wound up being an atheist. His opinions about the scriptures are not the ones you want to listen to."

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 does the Army Corps of Engineers think it is to come in here and decide they know something Mother Nature doesn't?

Identify any fallacies in the following passage. "Of course we should be able to go to the concert. Mom doesn't want us to have any fun at all! She treats us like babies. I'm fed up."

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. You saw what the former governor of Illinois did: He declared a moratorium on executions in the state. It was a good thing, too, because it turns out that a large number of the inmates on death row had to be turned loose because DNA evidence proved them innocent beyond a shadow of a doubt. It's about time we got serious about the fact that we've been convicting innocent people and sentencing them to death.

Identify any fallacies in the following passage. "Move to Toronto? Why would anyone want to live on the North Pole?"

Identify any fallacies in the following passage. "The new Secretary of Defense says he'll prosecute the war in the Middle East in accordance with current American policy. But you realize, don't you, that as soon as he got home from Vietnam he began to criticize American policy there."

Identify any fallacies in the following passage. "She is trustworthy; after all, she swears she is, and you can't doubt that."

Identify any fallacies in the following passage. "Outlawing hate speech-the latest bright idea from so-called progressives."

Identify any fallacies in the following passage. "The assemblyman came out against the Marijuana Legalization Initiative a couple of years ago. Maybe he's been reading the polls because now he's all for it. He doesn't convince me."

Identify any fallacies in the following passage. "Do you think you might learn something about farming by watching the Amish? Come on! Those people are still living in the 19th century, or maybe the 18th."

Identify any fallacies in the following passage. "C'mon, only conspiracy-theory nuts believe stuff like that."

Identify any fallacies in the following passage taken from the text. "Women should not be allowed in combat, because it is prohibited by the Defense Department."

Identify any fallacies in the following passage. "You must make your choice. Either this man was and is the son of God; or else a madman and something worse." - C.S.Lewis

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. "You can't say exactly when a videogame is too violent; therefore, no videogame is too violent."

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. "I don't buy his ideas on climate change. I haven't seen him drive a hybrid car!"

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. I don't think postmodern expressionism is decent art. It's another style spawned by the East Coast art establishment, and, frankly, I'm tired of that group's dictating to the rest of the art world.

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. "If you don't support women empowerment, then you are a male chauvinist who hates women!"

Identify any fallacies in the following passage. "Requiring restaurants to post calories will never get everyone to stop overeating. What a waste of time."

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. "Of course God created the universe. How do I know? Because he is the Creator."