Identify which of the following fallacies the following example illustrates. Choose the best answer from the list offered. The Institute for the Protection of Children and Family Values released a recent study. In it they show that violent crime has increased dramatically in recent years as programming on television and other media sources have stepped up the depiction of sex and violence. This
offers for the first time conclusive evidence to show that such programming inevitably leads to greater violence in society.
a. Slippery Slope
b. Jumping from Correlation to Cause
c. Gambler's Fallacy
d. Causal Oversimplification
e. Overlooking a Common Cause
f. Only Game in Town
g. Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc
b
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