SOC221H5 Lecture Notes - Greenpeace, Gender Inequality, Social Inequality
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Errors of common sense: logical fallacies that are wrong. It cannot be true that all people hold the same opinions: argumentation and auctoritatem (authority): A harvard study has found that women who shop more often are happier. What is different from one relationship/variable compared to other relationships/variables: premature closure of inquiry (inference from an example, failure to seek contrary evidence, halo effect: overall positive or negative evaluation of a phenomenon colours all its characteristics. He must have been coerced or fooled into nazism. Experience halo effect if you consider someone to be perfect if they do something you do not like you defend them by suggesting another answer. For example) my parents grounded me for a month because my safety was at risk. Logical failure is said by teacher as wrong: overgeneralisation: (inference from a few cases to a group) All australians i have met have been sociable.
