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Assessment Description

-Before completing the quiz, review the Logical Fallacies media piece and Chapter 4 of our class textbook: 21st Century Skills: Critical Thinking and Problem Solving.

• -You may also want to access the completed “Fallacy Study Guide” to further prepare for the quiz.
• -Complete the Fallacies in Everyday Life Quiz.
• -There are 10 questions in the quiz and a 1-hour time limit.

PHI 105 Topic 4 Fallacies in Everyday Life Quiz

1. Question: Select the fallacy that best describes the following statement: “If you believe in global warming you just believe everything you are told and don’t think for yourself.”
2. Question: Select the fallacy that best describes the following statement: “I don’t wear my seatbelt while driving anymore because I have three friends that all got in accidents while they were wearing their seatbelts.”
3. Question: Select the fallacy that best describes the following statement: “The defendant is obviously guilty because the polygraph administrator testified that he was lying.”
4. Question: Select the fallacy that best describes the following statement: “Barefoot running is superior to wearing running shoes because humans ran for thousands of years before shoes were invented. “
5. Question: The following fallacious statement is an example of a post hoc ergo propter hoc fallacy: “Stanley Clarke is the best bassist ever because he is better at playing the bass than anyone that has ever lived. “
6. Question: The following fallacious statement is an example of a slippery slope: “You should not eat at fast food restaurants because if you do then soon that is all you will be eating.”
7. Question: The following fallacious statement is an example of an extravagant hypothesis fallacy: “The ancient pyramids in Egypt were so symmetrical and well-built that they must have been constructed by aliens from another planet.”
8. Question: Select the fallacy that best describes the following statement: “I can’t help but think that you are the cause of this problem; we never had any problem within this department until you started working here.”
9. Question: Select the fallacy that best describes the following statement: “There is no compelling evidence that UFOs do not exist. Therefore, UFOs exist.”
10. Question: Select the fallacy that best describes the following statement: “We have enough oil in the world to last a couple hundred years, so everyone should just drive SUV’s as long as they can afford the gas.”

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PHI 105 Topic 4 Fallacies in Everyday Life Quiz.

1. Question: Joseph ran for President of his high school’s senior class.  When Joseph’s opponent, Sandra, won the election, he felt that the voting was rigged and that the people distributing ballots must have told students to vote for Sandra or they may have bribed the voters with candy. Which one of the following fallacies most align with this statement?
2. Question: Mike left work 15 minutes early because everyone else seemed to leave at least 15 minutes early on Fridays so he figured it must be okay to do. Which one of the following fallacies most align with this statement?
3. Question: Formulating a complex or unlikely explanation for an event when a simpler explanation would do. Which one of the following fallacies most align with this statement?
4. Question: The top four leaders of a University were chosen to work on a project together.  Since they are the best leaders they should be the perfect team to complete the project. Which one of the following fallacies most align with this statement?
5. Question: This error occurs when we don’t acknowledge that there may be grey areas that exist, both alternatives could be true, and other possibilities may exist. Which one of the following fallacies most align with this statement?
6. Question: “You should not eat at fast food restaurants because if you do then soon that is all you will be eating.” Which one of the following fallacies most align with this statement?
7. Question: “Stanley Clarke is the best bassist ever because he is better at playing the bass than anyone who has ever lived.” Which one of the following fallacies most align with this statement?
8. Question: Putting two or more good things together does not necessarily mean they will be good together. Which one of the following fallacies most align with this statement?
9. Question: “With the U.S. unemployment rate at 9.1%, every state, county, and city has
   unemployment problems (Johnson, 2011).” Which one of the following fallacies most align with this statement?
10. Question: Saying something must be true (or false) because there is little-to-no evidence to prove that it is not true (or not false). Which one of the following fallacies most align with this statement?

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PHI 105 Topic 4 Fallacies in Everyday Life Quiz

1. Question: “If you believe in global warming you just believe everything you are told or don’t think for yourself.”
2. Question: This is an appeal to popularity. It is saying that something must be right because everybody is doing it.
3. Question: “There is no compelling evidence that UFOs do not exist. Therefore, UFOs exist.”
4. Question: “There are two types of students- the student who works really hard and does well and the student who does nothing and fails.”
5. Question: “I can’t help but think that you are the cause of this problem; we never had any problem within this department until you started working here.”
6. Question: “The defendant is obviously guilty because the polygraph administrator testified that he was lying.”
7. Question: Once someone asks for one thing and receives it, they will not stop until they have taken it all.
8. Question: Deciding something just because this is the way we have always done it is committing this fallacy.
9. Question: Putting two or more good things together does not necessarily mean they will be good together.
10. Question: This means that the similarities between the two things being compared are not substantial enough to assume that another characteristic of one of them probably applies to the other.

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PHI 105 Topic 4 Fallacies in Everyday Life Quiz

1. Question: “There are two types of students- the student that works really hard and does well and the student that does nothing and fails.”
2. Question: Robert made his first purchase on ebay and the package did not arrive on time. Robert says he will not purchase another product on ebay because they never arrive on time.
3. Question: The top four leaders of a University were chosen to work on a project together. Since they are the best leaders they should be the perfect team to complete the project.
4. Question: A couple recently put in a pool in their backyard. Since the pool was put in, they have had quite a few rabbits hopping around the yard.  They determined that the pool must have attracted the rabbits to their yard.
5. Question: Most public schools have embraced the policy that students cannot bring in homemade treats to handout to the class. Some parents are upset by this because they think if they won’t allow students to bring homemade snacks for other students, they will continue to make more rules until students can’t even bring in their own lunch.
6. Question: There must be other universes in outer space since there is no evidence to prove that there are not any other universes.
7. Question: Joseph ran for President of his high school’s senior class. When Joseph’s opponent, Sandra, won the election he felt that the voting was rigged and that the people distributing ballots must have told students to vote for Sandra or they may have bribed the voters with candy.
8. Question: Jones teaches math by giving students daily timed tests to help them learn addition and subtraction facts. When another teacher asked why she doesn’t use the new manipulatives available to teach students how to add and subtract, Ms. Jones replied “I don’t know, that’s just the way I have always taught the addition and subtraction facts!”
9. Question: Michael Phelps, a popular Olympic swimmer acts in commercials to promote a shampoo. Promoting products using famous people as a sales tactic is an example of:
10. Question: Mike left work 15 minutes early because everyone else seemed to leave at least 15 minutes early on Fridays so he figured it must be okay to do.