Tuesday, October 25, 2011

Facebook fallacies



One of my friends on facebook had posted an image like this on facebook because that person thought that it was a little ironic. When you actually analyze the image, you find out that a woman who is supposed to be a mother who is being sprayed with a water hose is advocating that vaccine's caused her son to develop a disease called autism. There are two types of logical fallacies that are within this image. The first type of logical fallacy is called a hasty generalization which draws a conclusion on a sample that is not quite large enough to make an assumption which is what this image is converying but saying that if you give your child a vaccination then your child will develop autism and it will be the cause of autism. The mom is drawing a conclusion on the vaccination of her son having autism which is not a large of sample to draw an assumption from. The other type of logical fallacy that is conveyed in this facebook image is called non-sequiter. The reason why the image is conveying non-sequiter is because it is trying to compare sexuality such as the mom with nothing on except a wet bra to a child having a vaccination that causes autism. Essentially, the mom dressed as a sex symbol does not really have any thing to do with her son having a vaccination that develops autism and it being the cause of autism. The logical fallacy might have been place there to attract the eye to the woman instead of what was said.

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