Identify the type of generalization fallacy that appears in the following passage
Identify the type of generalization fallacy that appears in the following passage:Overheard: “You don’t think this country is in a slump? Get real. George here was laid off before Memorial Day, and Howie’s wife and a whole bunch of other people lost their jobs when the Safeway over on Jeffrey closed down. These are tough times.”
Accident
Hasty generalization
Exceptional cases
2.Identify the type of fallacy that appears in the following passage: “Look, we make people buy liability car insurance, so there’s no reason to complain about making people buy liability insurance when they buy a gun.”
Weak analogy
Slippery slope
Mistaken appeal to authority
3.Identify the type of fallacy that appears in the following passage: Evil spirits are making him sick.
Slippery slope
Hasty generalization
Untestable explanation
4.Identify the type of fallacy that appears in the following passage: It was a mistake giving the Oscar to Daniel Day-Lewis. A survey the very next day showed more people thought Ben Affleck deserved it.
Biased sample
Mistaken appeal to popularity
Bandwagon
5.Identify the type of fallacy that appears 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.”
Slippery slope
Hasty generalization
Weak analogy
6.Identify any formal fallacies or fallacies of language that appear in the following passage: If you are rich, then your car is something like a Mercedes or a Bentley. Oh! Is that your Bentley, you rich old thing, you?
The undistributed middle
Denying the antecedent
Affirming the consequent
7.Identify any formal fallacies or fallacies of language that appear in the following passage:
Mark: Jessica got low grades in this semester due to the recent demise of her father.
Judy: Oh, so now you’re trying to excuse her low grades?
Confusing explanations with excuses
Confusing contraries and contradictories
Consistency and inconsistency
8.Identify any formal fallacies or fallacies of language that appear in the following passage: Of course, the girl was carrying binoculars! The witness said he saw her with binoculars.
Miscalculating probabilities
Amphiboly
Composition