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Statistics for Fallacies quiz
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General Stats
- This quiz has been taken 23 times
- The average score is 3 of 13
Answer Stats
| Fallacies | Type of Fallacy | % Correct |
|---|---|---|
| To this very day (at the time of this writing), science has been unable to create life from non-life; therefore, life must be a result of divine intervention. | Argument from ignorance | 57%
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| Mike said I should eat healthier. He's spent more time in jail than on the street. He is in no position to give me advice on life. | argumentum ad hominem | 57%
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| You either support this bill or you're unpatriotic | Black-and-white fallacy | 43%
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| The Bible is the Word of God because God tells us it is in the Bible. | Circular reasoning | 43%
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| A politician mentioned all the cities where his tax policy decreased crime and failed to mention all the cities where his policy increased crime. | Fallacy of incomplete evidence | 29%
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| A student claims that the school is overcharging students for lunch. The teacher says that she does not believe that is happening. The student asks the teacher to prove that lunch prices are fair. | Onus Probandi | 29%
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| No atoms are alive. Therefore, nothing made of atoms is alive. | Fallacy of composition | 21%
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| I won’t go to that optometrist; everybody I know who goes to him ends up wearing glasses. | Post Hoc Fallacy | 21%
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| Major premise: Nothing is better than eternal happiness. Minor premise: A ham sandwich is better than nothing. Conclusion: A ham sandwich is better than eternal happiness. | A fallacy of Four terms | 7%
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| Imagine grains of sand in a bag. I can lift the bag when it contains one grain of sand. If I can lift the bag with X amount of grains of sand then I can certainly lift it with 1 extra grain of sand (It is absurd to think I can lift X grains but adding a single grain makes it too heavy to lift). Therefore, you can keep adding 1 grain of sand and I can lift the bag of sand, even if it has five tons of sand. | Continuum fallacy | 7%
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| Every unicorn has a horn on its forehead | existential fallacy | 7%
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| Whenever there is a school shooting, there emerge dozens of speculative opinions, many indexing a single cause such as the availability of guns. | Fallacy of the single cause | 7%
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| Our widgets cost less and last longer! | Incomplete Comparison | 7%
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