Recommended Practice: Fallacies of Evidence Handout #1 - Answer Key
1) Appeal to Ignorance
2) False Alternative
3) Questionable Cause
4) Hasty Generalization
5) Hasty Generalization
6) Slippery Slope
7) Slippery Slope
8) Questionable Cause
9) False Alternative
10) None
11) Hasty Generalization
12) Questionable Cause
13) False Alternative
14) Appeal to Ignorance
15) Slippery Slope
16) None (Two Wrongs Make a Right is not a Fallacy of Evidence)
17) Appeal to Ignorance
18) False Alternative
19) Questionable Cause
20) None (Appeal to Novelty isn't a Fallacy of Evidence)
21) Appeal to Ignorance
22) None (Appeal to Novelty, which is a Fallacy of Relevance)
23) Questionable Cause
24) Slippery Slope
25) Hasty Generalization
26) False Alternative
27) Slippery Slope
28) None (Personal Attack, which is a Fallacy of Relevance)
29) False Alternative
30) None (Hyperbole, which is a Fallacy of Language)
31) Appeal to Ignorance
32) None (Bandwagon Argument and Appeal to Tradition, which are Fallacies of Relevance)
33) Questionable Cause
34) None (Appeal to Novelty, which is a Fallacy of Relevance)
35) Slippery Slope
36) Questionable Cause
37) Hasty Generalization
38) None (Bandwagon Argument, which is a Fallacy of Relevance)
39) False Alternative
40) Appeal to Ignorance
41) Questionable Cause
42) Slippery Slope
43) False Alternative
44) Hasty Generalization
45) None (given the context, its reference to "thinking critically" seems vague, which is a Fallacy of Language)
46) Appeal to Ignorance
47) None (Hyperbole, which is a Fallacy of Language)
48) None (Two Wrongs Make a Right, which is a Fallacy of Relevance)
49) Questionable Cause
50) Slippery Slope