Among undergraduates who fell into a fallacy trap, false analogy was the most common and slippery slope the least common¶

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q2 i? Among those who fell into the fallacy trap, the ordering was false analogy, then post hoc, ad hominem, hasty generalization and slippery slope. → Ramasamy 2011

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Ramasamy 2011¶

Ramasamy, S. (2011). An Analysis of Informal Reasoning Fallacy and Critical Thinking Dispositions among Malaysian Undergraduates. Asia e University. https://www.aeu.edu.my

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Discussion of the Table 2 scoring distribution, where 0 points indicates falling into the fallacy trap. False Analogy had the largest 0-point share (19.4%) and Slippery Slope the smallest (10.6%) among the 189 respondents.

"However, among those who fell into the fallacy trap, most students seem to slide into the false analogy fallacy followed by post hoc, ad hominem, hasty generalization and slippery slope respectively."

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