Identify obstacles to critical thinking in the following passages using the cate
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Question
Identify obstacles to critical thinking in the following passages using the categories:
Getting Personal
Logical Error
Confirmation Bias: Halo Effect
Confirmation Bias: Horn Effect
Appeal to common practice
Stereotyping
Subjective Relativism
Social Relativism
Philosophical Skepticism
Peer Pressure
Group Think
Appeal to Popularity
Explain your reasoning. 3 marks each.
1) Most Canadians do not speak French. Therefore, Canada should not have two official languages.
2) I would rather not get in a cab with a woman driver. Everyone knows that women are terrible drivers compared with men.
3) The Klimt painting of Adele Bloch Bauer sold for 135 million dollars US last year. It must be the greatest painting ever made
4) Under the Taliban in Afghanistan, women were essentially banned from public life, and human rights abuses against them were rampant. This may be unacceptable to us in the West, but we shouldn’t comment on the decisions of a government with very different traditions.
5) I got an ‘F’ on that essay because the professor doesn’t know what she is doing. I do not need extra help. In every other class I am getting an ‘A’.
6) None of my friends would be caught dead doing ballroom dancing. Ballroom dancing looks ridiculous
Getting Personal
Logical Error
Confirmation Bias: Halo Effect
Confirmation Bias: Horn Effect
Appeal to common practice
Stereotyping
Subjective Relativism
Social Relativism
Philosophical Skepticism
Peer Pressure
Group Think
Appeal to Popularity
Explanation / Answer
1 social relativism
2 confirmation bias horn effect
3 confirmation bias halo effect
4 subject relativism
5 getting personal
6 peer pressure