Introducing
Your new presentation assistant.
Refine, enhance, and tailor your content, source relevant images, and edit visuals quicker than ever before.
Trending searches
Persuasion that deliberately discourages people from thinking for themselves.
Statements that seem reasonable, but are based on faulty logic.
Types of Faulty Reasoning
Conclusions or opinions that are drawn from few observations or that ignore exceptions.
EX: Someone once had an undercooked hamburger from McDonalds, so that person claims that McDonald’s hamburgers are always undercooked.
Assuming the truth of a statement before it is proven.
EX: A politician claims that something needs to be done about the failing state education system without proving that there is anything wrong with it in the first place.
A starting point for an argument that is untrue or distorted.
EX: That guy was sure a good baseball player that he’s bound to be a great coach.
Information that may sound impressive but has nothing to do with the argument being made.
EX: This used car must be in great shape because it is so clean on the inside!
Types of Propaganda
Building a connection between two things that are not logically connected.
EX: Commercial for a bank showing buff people on the beach.
Encouraging people to act simply because it is the way other people are acting.
EX: McDonalds- America’s favorite fries (by sales)!
Labeling intended to arouse powerful negative feelings.
EX: Tax-and-spend liberal!
Presenting only partial information in order to leave an inaccurate impression. Half-truths.
EX: This mouthwash will leave your mouth cleaner than it’s even been (by taking the enamel off your teeth as well as any stain).
Biased belief about a whole group of people based on insufficient or irrelevant evidence.
EX: Of course he’s good at math! He’s ASIAN!
Using words with strong positive or negative connotations.
EX: “thrifty” vs. “cheap,” “strong-willed” vs. “inflexible”
Statements used to arouse emotional reactions to the point where they cloud or distort the truth.
EX: A Nazi Germany war poster shows a strong, proud SS officer marching off to battle with no mention of the unarmed civilian Jews he would be killing.