Chapter 10 Errors of Procedure

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Chapter 10Errors of Procedure

• Beyond Feelings

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Biased Consideration of Evidence

• Two forms of this error
• Only seeking evidence that confirms your bias
• Interpreting evidence that challenges your bias
  in a way that supports your bias

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Double Standard
Using one standard of judgment for our ideas and
ideas compatible with our own but using an
entirely different standard for ideas that
disagree with ours
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Hasty Conclusion
A premature judgment made without sufficient
evidence
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Overgeneralization Stereotyping
Overgeneralization to ascribe to all the members
of a group what fits only some members Stereot
ype an overgeneralization that is especially
resistant to change
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Oversimplification
Multiple causes are reduced to just one or a few
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The Post Hoc Fallacy
Expresses the reasoning that when one thing
occurs after another, it must be the result of
the other