Question

Common logical fallacies: ● Explain and give an example of the causal slippery slope fallacy that Hamilton makes ● Which fallacy do you believe is used the most in everyday life, and what is the reasoning for its usage? ● Suppose that a football quarterback has been throwing 5 touchdowns a game. All of a sudden, he starts playing average. What explains his fall? ● How do common everyday fallacies effect our everyday communications ● How will a small sample size affect the outcome of an experiment?

Answer 1

Slippery slope fallacy means small decision or action will make major and sometimes ludicrous consequences

Example: If you will allow children to see movies till late night, they will argue to see it everyday and one day they will ask for adult film.

Ad hominem is the most common fallacy which is used daily, because every time we argue on some topic people instead of arguing attack on persona’s character. The example is on news debate we can see this on daily basis. The discussion is something else but the guests on the show attack on character of the person.

We use fallacy every day in our life, but it has some effect on us like Ad hominem fallacy is used to attack on persons character, so this can cause psychological problem to that person.   Bandwagon fallacy is thinking an argument must be true because it’s popular. And we do this intake this fallacy in our life daily, while arguing we only try to prove our point is valid and we use this fallacy to prove it because the point which used is popular. That could be wrong and we could mislead other people.

Small sample size has low statistical power, inflated false discovery rate, inflated effect size estimation, low reproducibility which effect the experiment.