Gambler’s fallacy 1 Gambler’s fallacy The Gambler’s fallacy‚ also known as the Monte Carlo fallacy (because its most famous example happened in a Monte Carlo Casino in 1913)[1] . Also referred to as the fallacy of the maturity of chances‚ which is the belief that if deviations from expected behaviour are observed in repeated independent trials of some random process‚ future deviations in the opposite direction are then more likely. For example‚ if a fair coin is tossed repeatedly and tails
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More Fallacies Quiz I (See related pages) Results Reporter | | Out of 3 questions‚ you answered 2 correctly with a final grade of 67% | | | | | | 2 correct (67%) | | | | 1 incorrect (33%) | | | | 0 unanswered (0%) | | | Your Results: | The correct answer for each question is indicated by a . | ------------------------------------------------- Top of Form Please answer all questions. | 1 CORRECT | | It is fair to say that all rhetorical devices tempt
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Logical Fallacies There have been many tragic events during the course of 2012 and the start of 2013 that have sparked many controversial debates. One can conclude from the Sandy Hook massacre in Newtown Connecticut to the marathon bombing in Boston that something must be done‚ but what exactly must be done is the topic of debate amongst every media outlet known to man. Through the course of this whole gun control and immigration debate‚ there have been many logical fallacies used by many politicians
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There are many informal fallacies that can be discussed but I have chosen to speak of Bifurcation‚ and the Red Herring Fallacy. Bifurcation is a fallacy in which you are given a situation and a choice to make. It tries to let one feel as though it is either of those options but in reality there could be many more. In a sense it is like not telling the complete truth. You don’t really lie because you didn’t actually give a false choice or statement‚ but you didn’t really give all of the information
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I THE FUSION FALLACY If an Australian lawyer were asked about the significance of 1975 in the development of Australian law‚ he or she would no doubt point to the famous constitutional crisis that culminated‚ on Armistice Day of that year‚ in the use by the Governor-General of the ‘reserve powers’ to dismiss the government of the day. That event generated great legal and political controversy for many years‚ and ‘left many unresolved problems’.[2] Yet‚ except as an issue in the now muted republican
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INTRODUCTION Protons and neutrons make up a nucleus‚ which is the foundation of nuclear science. Fission and fusion involves the dispersal and combination of elemental nucleus and isotopes‚ and part of nuclear science is to understand the process behind this phenomenon. Adding up the individual masses of each of these subatomic particles of any given element will always give you a greater mass than the mass of the nucleus as a whole. The missing idea in this observation is the concept called nuclear
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popular types of arguments is the either-or fallacy‚ also known as black-and-white thinking‚ a false dilemma‚ or a fallacy of false choice. In the either-or fallacy‚ one side argues that there are only two resolutions to an issue‚ despite there possibly being hundreds. Fallacy is a misleading or deceptive notion‚ so by its very definition it should be obvious that the either-or fallacy is a weak argumentative style. People who use the either-or fallacy usually don’t have much evidence to prove their
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Instructions | This quiz consist of 20 multiple choice questions and covers the material in Chapter 11. Be sure you are in Chapter 11 when you take the quiz. | * Question 1 5 out of 5 points | | | Officer‚ please excuse my going over the speed limit‚ but my mother is ill and I’m being audited by the IRS‚ and I don’t know how I can meet all my bills.Answer | | | | | Selected Answer: | Appeal to pity | Correct Answer: | Appeal to pity | | | | * Question 2 5 out of
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“Immigration and Fallacies – Do They Belong Together?” Critical/Analytical Paper Critical Thinking (HU 101) Introduction We didn’t talk about this topic in class‚ nor did I read an article which made me think of writing about this. But I heard the following conversation (simplified) about illegal immigration in the U.S. on campus: Anti: "I believe that illegal immigration is not good for our country." Pro: "Of course you would say that‚ you ’re a racist." Anti:
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Fusion in the sun ‚1 second ‚ 600 million tons of hydrogen are being converted into helium‚ this reaction releases tons amounts of heat and energy. The process of fusion in the sun is known as The proton chain. The sun starts with protons and through a series of steps ‚ it turns into helium. When this is happening something called plasma is being formed. Plasma is being ionized. The sun is so hot. Really hot but all of the heat and light coming from the sun comes from the fusion process happening
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