Even perfectly good statistics can be misused.

Strategies for Decision Making

Question 1Even perfectly good statistics can be misused.

Question 2Polls can be misleading because of

Question 3Identify the fallacy: Labelling A as the cause of B on evidence that is insufficient, negative, unrepresentative, or in serious conflict with well-established high-level theories

Question 4Identify the fallacy: Employing statistics that are questionable without further support

Question 5ly accusing someone of fallacious reasoning is itself fallacious.

Question 6Identify the fallacy: Drawing an analogical conclusion when the cases compared are not alike, or when their similarity is not relevant to the conclusion drawn or when there is some crucial dissimilarity between them

Question 7Identify the fallacy: Drawing conclusions about a population on the basis of a sample that is too small to be a reliable measure of that population

Question 8Identify the fallacy: Accepting an argument on the basis of relevant but insufficient information of evidence

Question 9Identify the fallacy: Reasoning from a sample that is not representative (typical) of the population from which it is drawn

Question 10Identify the fallacy: Erroneously accusing others of fallacious reasoning