Transcript Inductive Fallacies

Inductive Fallacies
Objectives
1. To avoid fallacies of
inductive reasoning
Assignment:
• Make up your own
example for each of
the 5 inductive
fallacies
• Summarize the
“Surviorship Bias”
article
Objective 1
You will be able to avoid
fallacies of inductive reasoning
Exercise 1
Joe has a friend who just happens to be a
Native American named Victor. One day
Victor gave Joe a CD. The next day Victor
decided that he wanted the CD back, and
so he confronted Joe. After reluctantly
giving the CD back to his friend, Joe made
the conjecture: “Victor, like all Native
Americans, is an Indian Giver.” What is
wrong with his conjecture? What does this
example illustrate?
Inductive Fallacies
The previous example illustrated an inductive
fallacy, where a reliable conjecture cannot be
justifiably made. Joe was guilty of a Hasty
Generalization, basing a conclusion on too little
information. Here are some others:
Unrepresentative Sample
False Analogy
Slothful Induction
Fallacy of Exclusion
Inductive Fallacies
As a group, match each inductive fallacy
definition with the corresponding example.
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Inductive Fallacies
Objectives
1. To avoid fallacies of
inductive reasoning
Assignment:
• Make up your own
example for each of
the 5 inductive
fallacies
• Summarize the
“Surviorship Bias”
article