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I forgot to wear my lucky jersey and my favorite team lost their playoff game. I

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Question

I forgot to wear my lucky jersey and my favorite team lost their playoff game. It's my fault they're not going to the Super Bowl. 54.

apeal to ignorance

questionable cause; post hoc

questionable cause; mere correlation

questionable cause; over simplification

Conspiracy theorists suggest that 9/11 was an inside government job. The government secretly landed those planes, took off all the passengers, and then hid the planes. Then they took remote-controlled planes and flew those planes into the towers. But days before, they had managed to sneak in explosives into the towers, without anyone seeing, and then performed a controlled detonation on the buildings after the remote-controlled planes hit the towers. And, even though thousands of people would've had to have been involved in the conspiracy to pull this off, they all kept quiet and didn't object. Given the track record of the federal government, that sounds like a plausible scenario to me.

inappropriate appeal to authority

false alternatives

questionable casuse; mere correlation

slippery slope

a.

apeal to ignorance

b.

questionable cause; post hoc

c.

questionable cause; mere correlation

d.

questionable cause; over simplification

Explanation / Answer

I forgot to wear my lucky jersey and my favorite team lost their playoff game. It's my fault they're not going to the Super Bowl. 54. I forgot to wear my lucky jersey and my favorite team lost their playoff game. It's my fault they're not going to the Super Bowl. 54.

ans is option b: questionable cause : post hoc

2 ans ) option b false alternatives