Fallacy

Question 1

Appeal to Authority

Answer 1

using authority to back something up, celebrity

Question 2

Lack of proportion

Answer 2

blowing things out of proportion and downplaying something

Question 3

Strawman

Answer 3

Taking one for instance and hammering away at it.

Question 4

Two wrongs make a right

Answer 4

doing wrong “because someone/else did wrong”

Question 5

Popularity

Answer 5

Doing something because others do it too

Question 6

Traditional Wisdom

Answer 6

doing wrong “because its always been done”

Question 7

Hastey Conclusion

Answer 7

Jumping to conclusions despite lack of evidence

Question 8

Ad Hominem

Answer 8

Irrelevent personal attack

Question 9

Anachronism

Answer 9

judging actions of past with present day values; inaccuracy of dates and other discrepancies, often in media/movies

Question 10

Begging the question

Answer 10

the question is never answered; goes in circles

Question 11

Suppressed Evidence

Answer 11

information being withheld

Question 12

Irrelevant Reasoning

Answer 12

Reasoning that’s…duh irrelevant; meant to trick or avoid giving real reasoning (or there’s a lack of reasoning)

Question 13

False Dilema

Answer 13

given less choices than there really are

Question 14

Slippery Slope

Answer 14

Claiming something will lead to something very bad

Question 15

Equivocation

Answer 15

A subtle shift in the meaning of a word

Question 16

Questionable Analogy

Answer 16

An analogy that doesn’t work

Question 17

Appeal to Ignorance

Answer 17

Using an absence of proof to say they are correct; using a person’s ignorance against them

Question 18

Conspiracy

Answer 18

the belief that an organization/the government is making bad things happen

Question 19

Small Sample

Answer 19

Sample pulled from too small of a group

Question 20

Unrepresentative Sample

Answer 20

Sample pulled that does not represent the thing in question

Question 21

Unknowable Statistics

Answer 21

Impossible Statistic; unable to know

Question 22

Questionable Statistics

Answer 22

Possible to find out but no one would

Question 23

Gambling Fallacy

Answer 23

Betting on possibility over probability

Question 24

Inconsistency

Answer 24

Self-contradiction

Question 25

Questionable Premise

Answer 25

Blind faith; basing things off of unknown

Question 26

Questionable Cause

Answer 26

Coming to a false conclusion

Question 27

Composition/Division

Answer 27

The assumption that a thing is a certain way based on a different quality; Assuming that all parts of a thing is a certain way based on it as a whole

Question 28

Faulty Comparison

Answer 28

Comparing a product to other products that are not the same

Question 29

Appeal to Emotions

Answer 29

Using the emotions of the user to sell a product

Question 30

Promise

Answer 30

The promise of the product that can’t be followed through

Question 31

Deceptive Humor

Answer 31

Using humor to sell

Question 32

Weasel Words

Answer 32

Terms to get off the hook if the product doesn’t work or isn’t as advertised

Question 33

Puffery

Answer 33

Terms that mean nothing; added pizaz