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HFOSS Quiz 2: Rhetological Fallacies

When?

1. When was the latest version of the infographic published?
   • April 2012

Who?

2. Who wrote and designed this infographic?
   • David McCandless, Tatjana Dubrovina, Piero Zagami
3. Who did the research and collected the data?
   • Marley Whiteside, Kathryn Ariel Kay, Peter Ayres
4. Who did the translation of this graphic?
   • Klaus-Michael Lux, Iván Galarza

Where?

5. Where on the internet can this infographic be found?
   • Rhetological Fallacies
6. What sources did the authors use to create this visualization? List each one in the form of a hyperlink.
   • Wikipedia
   • Fallacy Files
   • Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
   • The Skeptic’s Dictionary
   • Changing Minds
   • Logically Fallactious
   • E-ducation
   • EvoWiki
   • The Secular Web
   • Philosophical Society
   • San Jose State University
   • TVTropes
   • Santa Rosa Junior College
   • A Concise Introduction to Logic
   • A Beginner’s Guide to the Scientific Method

What?

7. According to the graphic, how many major categories of fallacy are there? Please list each one.
   • Appeal to the Mind
   • Appeal to the Emotions
   • Faulty Deduction
   • Manipulating Content
   • Garbled Cause and Effect
   • On the Attack.
8. How many different languages has this infographic been translated into? Please list each one.
   • English
   • French
   • German
   • Italian
   • Spanish.
9. Under what license was this infographic released?
   • Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial 3.0- or CC-BY-NC 3.0

Bonus: Why?

10. Why might understanding these fallacies be useful or important?
    • Understanding how different arguments can or can not be applicable to a debate allows one to populate their arguments with more fact and logical reasoning. This removes a lot of the emotion from the debate and allows for more concrete thoughts to be expressed.