Statistics for Logical Fallacies

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
Misrepresenting someone's argument to make it easier to attack.	Strawman	89%
Attacking your opponent's character or personal traits in an attempt to undermine their argument.	Ad Hominem	47%
Asserting that if we allow A to happen, then Z will consequently happen too, therefore A should not happen.	Slippery Slope	32%
Manipulating an emotional response in place of a valid or compelling argument.	Appeal to Emotion	26%
Using the opinion or position of an authority figure, or institution of authority, in place of an actual argument.	Appeal to Authority	21%
Making the argument that because something is 'natural' it is therefore valid, justified, inevitable, good, or ideal.	Appeal to Nature	21%
Saying that a compromise, or middle point, between two extremes is the truth.	Middle Ground	21%
Appealing to popularity or the fact that many people do something as an attempted form of validation.	Bandwagon	16%
Using personal experience or an isolated example instead of a valid argument, especially to dismiss statistics.	Anecdotal	11%
A circular argument in which the conclusion is included in the premise.	Begging the Question	11%
Judging something good or bad on the basis of where it comes from, or from whom it comes.	Genetic	11%
Asking a question that has an assumption built into it so that it can't be answered without appearing guilty.	Loaded Question	11%
Making what could be called an appeal to purity as a way to dismiss relevant criticisms or flaws of an argument.	No True Scotsman	11%
Avoiding having to engage with criticism by turning it back on the accuser - answering criticism with criticism.	Tu Quoque	11%
Saying that the burden of proof lies not with the person making the claim, but with someone else to disprove.	Burden of Proof	5%
Assuming that what's true about one part of something has to be applied to all, or other, parts of it.	Composition/Division	5%
Using double meanings or ambiguities of language to mislead or misrepresent truth.	Ambiguity	0%
Where two alternative states are presented as the only possibilities, when in fact more possibilities exist.	Black-or-White	0%
Presuming that a real or perceived relationship between things means that one is the cause of the other.	False Cause	0%
Saying that because one finds something difficult to understand that it's therefore not true.	Personal Incredulity	0%
Moving the goalposts to create exceptions when a claim is shown to be false.	Special Pleading	0%
Presuming that because a claim has been poorly argued, or a fallacy has been made, that it is necessarily wrong.	The Fallacy Fallacy	0%
Believing that 'runs' occur to statistically independent phenomena such as roulette wheel spins.	The Gambler's Fallacy	0%
Cherry-picking data clusters to suit an argument, or finding a pattern to fit a presumption.	The Texas Sharpshooter	0%