Flaw II Flashcards
What is the flaw?
The failure of bicyclists to obey traffic laws is a causal factor in one quarter of traffic accidents involving biclycists
Since inadequate biclyce safety is also a factor in more than a quarter of such accidents, bicyclists are at least partially responsible for more than half of the traffic accidents involving bicycles
Fallacy of Exclusivity
Correct answer for question:
Fails to consider that the possibility that more than one facctor may contribute to a given accident
The argument fails to consider that a traffic accident can have multiple causes. This means that it would potentially be in error to combine the percentage amounts. They could be occurring in the same accidents.
this argument only works if, in each of the above cases, the causal factor mentioned excluded the other causal factor. - which we are not told
one of the incorrect answer choices is that the argument “improperly implies a causal connection on the basis of a correlation,” however, it doesnt do that. That is, for this to be true, the causal statement would have been in the conclusion, not the premise
What is the difference between Parallel Reasoning and Parallel the Flawed Reasoning
In Parallel the Flawed Reasoning, you must simply find the matching flaw
however,
Everything must match up in Parallel Reasoning (for example, use of qualifiers - some, most) and method of reasoning
NOTE: Flaws can also be present on normal parallel questions