Logical fallicies

Logical Fallacies are the idea of determining the errors that undermine the reasoning of a common argument. This is to say that Logical fallacies are the different types of errors that can be found in an argument that makes it seem less logical or takes convincing. There are many logical fallacies ,such as slippery slope. Slippery slope is the idea of cause and effect,saying one thing happens because of another thing,and it causes another thing to happen,which will eventually lead to another and so on and so forth. It is the idea of chain reaction happening because of one thing. This is considered a logical fallacy for the obvious reason that third idea isn't very supportive. You can't depend on a chain reaction based evidence to support an argument because there is no way of knowing all those scenarios are responsible for one problem. Another logical Fallacy is Hasty generalization,which is the idea of supporting an argument through a generalized idea or statement. In the article,"Logical Fallacies" the author talks about how Logical fallacies are used everywhere in everyday life. It defines the term,"Fallacy" and hoow they are used,along with verious exammplkes. In the text it says,"Again, with the information presented, the conclusion is faulty. There are no facts to back up the claim. Yet, this is the rhetoric being trumpeted on social media and network television 24/7 these days. This sort of logical nonsense is not bound by party lines.“Democrats want to fund programs to help illegal immigrants become citizens. Democrats do not care about the needy and starving people in our own country.”The pattern is the same: Begin with a proven, or easily proven fact, and follow it up with any claim at all. The truth of the first sentence strengthens the next, and before you know it, Democrats hate Americans and Trump hates everyone else." These examples are examples of slippery slope. The author uses political examples as a way to relate with the people of the modern world,especially of the recent time. This shows how it effects that of the modern society. It also shows the negative impacts it has,such as the creation of untrue statements and stereotypes. This then results in false accusations of certain culture and social groups in society. This can be prevented through the usage of hard data within arguments. Logical fallacies are the idea that real data aren't used to support ideas,but if that changes then it won't be a problem

Propoganda:Good or bad?

Propaganda is the idea of promoting or presenting ideas to a public audience through biased,misleading nature. Propaganda was very active during the times of world war 2 and is even incredibly active now,mostly in commercials and other forms of media. For example,have you ever saw the truck that says,"got Junk"? the company is a place that collects the collateral damage from buildings and infrastructures.The company's slogan,"Got Junk" is an example of the propaganda device,Loaded word. It's where the display or propaganda is designed to lure in the audience's attention through the way the words are presented,usually big and bold.Other forms of propaganda include,Bandwagon,Plain folks,Card stacking,Transfer,and a commonly used one Name calling. Name calling will be the main focus here, because it is the most used and most effective. According to MSU.edu,the article refers to world war 2 and how the american society wanted the Americans to be set in the idea to be against the Japanese the Americans were fighting. Lot of the propaganda presented by the Americans referred to the Japaneses as "Japs" and presented them as monsters who eat babies. This was a huge example of name calling because they were literally calling the Japanese monsters. It's bias because it is an opinionated idea,yet the idea made that it was to create the idea to hate the Japanese. While this was creative on america's part,it did cause some after problems. People ,even now look at the Japanese terribly and treat them . This has shown how propaganda has causes the destruction of relations with other ethnic groups and creates stereotype that cause certain relations incapable to happen. A way this could be prevented would simply be to reach out to those who suffer from propaganda. Minorities like women and people of different races.

Unconscious Bias

Are we unconsciously biased,that is the question. The idea of being unconsciously biased is to say that people are biased without recognizing it. According to the article,Unconscious bias: Some lessons learned,society is most at fault for creating biases like this. They create these invisible barriers that divide the world into "good or bad". These divisions create ideals of denial and resistance. No body wants be considered bad or wants to be accused of falling under the category of being wrong,so to avoid this,we use bias as mental short cuts to make decisions. Biases are our way of trying to explain the cause of an idea while still maintaining the what we want. A good example of this is Attribution Bias. This is defined as a tendency to think when we do well it is down to our own merit. When we do badly we tend to blame external factors. With other people, we tend to do the opposite. This is the most common type of bias,that most humans have and is the most overlooked because most people never recognize it when it happens.The article goes on to talk about many different types of Bias and how each plays a role in helping humans try to compensate with this theoretical idea of being considered good or bad. Biases not only give reassurance for humans quickly they also define the type of person you are. Biases can determine the kind of choices you make as a person as well as how we view ourselves compared to other people. For example,Affinity Bias is tendency to act more favorable to people reminding us of ourselves. This Bias defines people who tend to treat other people better depending on how much they remind them of themselves,From this it could be stated that Biases also shape how treat people and yourself. It determines the kind of sociability you have and how use it.The article then goes on to say this," Unconscious biases limit our ability to reason objectively. While participants should not be shamed in training sessions, they do need to understand the influence of unconscious biases." This quote is saying that while Unconscious Bias is natural,It isn't good to have, and as people we need to learn how to recognize when these biases are taking place. It also says not recognizing these biases lead to consequences such as job hiring. Employers with this kind of Bias can end up turning down or rejecting those who cold be valuable workers because they don't feel they"fit in". They can also interfere with the productivity of an individual or a work team. On the job, employers who execute Affinity Bias will treat those who they like on the work team better than those they don't like as much. This will in result, cause one portion of the team to progress while the other stays the same or digresses. In a turn of events the portion of the team that isn't progressing notices that the other portion of team is progressing will catch on that the employer is biased while the employer himself dose not. This will cause inability for the employee to see the employer as,"credible" and they may lack motivation in doing assigned job knowing it may not matter in the end ,anyway. Multiply this scenario to match the millions of working facilities across the nation where this situation can occur again,it is easy to see how this quickly becomes a problem. This is like McCarthyism because soon people who are looking for jobs will be weary to because they end up generalizing all employers as bias. While this not true,it will discourage those who want to go into a workplace and cause financial depreciation in many societies. While this not a"witch hunt"per say,the other affect of this bias is that people will be quick to judge employers who they feel are bias without any reasoning behind their claim. This makes thus kind of bias will result in just as big of a danger as a "witch hunt". According to the article,the best way to go about this is to let the participants discover this bias on their own. This can be done through discussions and exercises well as developing insights into skills/strategies for mitigating bias They should also have participants practice skills and strategies in different work situations,like at home or out in public,anything that involves transactions among people.