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Mar 25
4 min

Ethics Bowl - Correlation

Continuing to look at ways to apply critical-thinking principles to ethical dilemmas, including those making up national cases for this...

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Feb 14
4 min

But What About...?

Is there anything to be learned from the just-ended Impeachment II? What about whataboutism?

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Oct 31, 2020
3 min

Getting the Vote Count "Right"

Nowhere is the gap between human belief in the perfection of numbers, and their grubby reality more apparent than during an election count.

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Oct 24, 2020
4 min

Deliberation

The final presidential debate demonstrates how deliberation is where critical thinking and democratic politics meet.

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Oct 16, 2020
3 min

Equivocation

When it comes to critical thinking, the ambiguity inherent in language can easily lead to the fallacy of equivocation.

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Sep 30, 2020
4 min

Argumentation from Outrage

The first 2020 presidential debate is the new champion example of the informal fallacy argumentation from outrage.

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Sep 26, 2020
4 min

Donald Trump: Acting Base (Rate)

Donald Trump's TV Spots: Argument from Fear and Base-Rate Fallacies

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Sep 17, 2020
5 min

Joe Biden: Cool Kid and Rooster

What fallacies can we find in campaign commercials? First up: Joe Biden's "Laughed At" and "Timeline".

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Sep 10, 2020
3 min

Fallacies

Fallacies are errors in reasoning that occur so frequently they have been given names, some of which go back centuries.

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Sep 3, 2020
7 min

A Complex Argument for Opening Schools

How well does New York Times columnist @NickKristof make his case for school reopening?

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Aug 27, 2020
5 min

Countdown to the Next Big Count

Certainly something as ridiculously simple as counting can't lead to chaos and error. Can it?

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Aug 18, 2020
7 min

Apples to Apples

Mathmatical fallacies, like comparing apples to oranges, can have deadly consequences

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Aug 13, 2020
3 min

Rates of Confusion

How much do stats, including ones we need to measure our success fighting a pandemic, represent ideal numbers vs. a messy world?

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Aug 8, 2020
3 min

Playing with Numbers

What happens when our faith in the numeric information leads us astray?

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