Why should we put these terrorists on trial when we know they are guilty?
Begging the Question
100
An assertion is deemed true because of the position or authority of the person asserting it.
Appeal to Authority
100
A sports fan who believes his team is the best only seems to remember the matches they won and none of the embarrassing defeats to inferior opponents.
Confirmation Bias
100
Psychological phenomenon by which humans have a greater recall of unpleasant memories compared with positive memories
Negativity Bias
100
"The new Tata is an unreliable car. One of my best friend and my uncle own Tata Zest, and both have had reliability problems."
Hasty Generalization
200
You support capital punishment just because you want an “eye for an eye,” but I have several good reasons to believe that capital punishment is fundamentally wrong…
Strawman Argument
200
Attacking the arguer instead of the argument
Ad Hominem
200
If you get all your tasks done you say you're great at time management, but if not you claim your boss gave you too much work to handle
Self-Serving Bias
200
The tendency to rely too heavily on one trait or piece of information when making decisions (usually the first piece of information that we acquire on that subject)
Anchoring
200
"If smoking Ganja was not illegal, then it would not be prohibited by the law."
Begging the Question
300
The meteorologist predicted the wrong amount of rain for May. Obviously the meteorologist's forecasts are unreliable.
Hasty Generalization
300
A speaker attempts to distract an audience by deviating from the topic at hand by introducing a separate argument the speaker believes is easier to speak to.
Red Herring
300
I take an IQ test which shows myself as having a lower IQ. I believe it wrong. I find more credible the results from another test which shows me as having a very high IQ, even though I know the test is less valid.
Bias Blind Spot
300
The tendency to unconsciously assume that others (or one's future selves) share one's current emotional states, thoughts and values.
Projection Bias
300
If we ban smoking, then people will start taking soft drugs and then move onto hard drugs, and the crime rate will go up and up. We should therefore prevent crime by allowing smoking.
Slippery Slope
400
You know Bipasha Basu's exercise video’s must be worth the money. Look at the great shape she’s in. We must try it.
False Cause
400
The arguer sets up the situation so it looks like there are only two choices. The arguer then eliminates one of the choices, so it seems that we are left with only one option: the one the arguer wanted us to pick in the first place.
False Dichotomy
Either or Argument
400
On the evening of an important World Cup game, your friend predicts that the New Zealand team is going to win by a large margin. In fact, the New Zealand team does end up winning the game, causing your friend to boast “I predicted it!”
Hindsight Bias
400
Devaluing proposals only because they purportedly originated with an adversary.
Reactive Devaluation
400
Employees are like nails. Just as nails must be hit in the head in order to make them work, so must employees.
Weak Analogy or False Analogy
500
Look, you are going to have to make up your mind. Either you decide that you can afford this gym membership, or you decide you are going to do without exercise for a while.
False Dilemma
500
The assumption that because two quantities increase or decrease in the same way as each other, or two properties show up together, that one of those variables is causing the other
Correlation implies Causation
500
A company releases a new product and shows adverts with a big group of people having a good time using the product.
Bandwagon Effect
500
Expecting a member of a group to have certain characteristics without having actual information about that individual.
Stereotyping
500
I fail to see why hunting should be considered cruel when it gives tremendous pleasure to many people and employment to even more.