Evaluating arguments

Identify the logical fallacy in each of the following passages.

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undefined. Whenever I wash my car, it rains. I have discovered a way to end all droughts—get all the people to wash their cars.
◯ Faulty cause-and-effect reasoning
◯ Non sequitur
Evaluating arguments – 1

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undefined. Either you can learn how to design a Web site or you won’t be able to get a decent job after college.
◯ Hasty generalization
◯ Either . . . or fallacy
Evaluating arguments – 2

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undefined. College professors tend to be sarcastic. Three of my five professors this semester make sarcastic remarks.
◯ Hasty generalization
◯ Ad hominem
Evaluating arguments – 3

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undefined. Although Martin Bell’s book on Joe DiMaggio was well researched, I doubt that an Australian historian can contribute much to our knowledge of an American baseball player.
◯ Ad hominem
◯ Faulty cause-and-effect reasoning
Evaluating arguments – 4

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undefined. Slacker co-workers and crazy, big-mouthed clients make our spineless managers impose ridiculous workloads on us hardworking, conscientious employees.
◯ Hasty generalization
◯ Biased language
Evaluating arguments – 5

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undefined. If professional sports teams didn’t pay athletes such high salaries, we wouldn’t have so many kids breaking their legs at hockey and basketball camps.
◯ Faulty cause-and-effect reasoning
◯ False analogy
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undefined. Ninety percent of the students oppose a tuition increase; therefore, the board of trustees should not pass the proposed increase.
◯ Non sequitur
◯ Faulty cause-and-effect reasoning
Evaluating arguments – 7

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undefined. If more people would take a long, close look at businesses like Microsoft and Amazon, they could reorganize their family lives more efficiently.
◯ Hasty generalization
◯ False analogy
Evaluating arguments – 8

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undefined. A mandatory ten-cent deposit on bottles and cans will eliminate litter because everyone I know will return the containers for the money rather than throw them away.
◯ Hasty generalization
◯ Ad hominem
Evaluating arguments – 9

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undefined. Researching what voters think during an election campaign is useless because most citizens don’t vote anyway.
◯ Non sequitur
◯ False analogy
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