An RN is consistently late to work, causing reassignment of patient care and the need for repeated shift reports
The nurse, who receives a warning for repeated tardiness, states, "My husband left me, I have no car, no family close by, and the bus is always late, which makes me late. The nurse manager doesn't care how hard I try to get here, and I am raising a child by myself." The nurse is using which type of logical fallacy?
a. Appeal to emotion
b. Appeal to tradition
c. Hasty generalization
d. Confusing cause and effect
ANS: A
Correct: An appeal to emotion is an attempt to manipulate other people's emotions for the purpose of avoiding the real issue.
Incorrect:
b. An appeal to tradition is the argument that doing things a certain way is best because they've always been done that way.
c. Hasty generalization involves coming to a conclusion on the basis of a very small number of examples. A hasty generalization occurs whenever an assumption is made that a small group represents the whole population.
d. One confuses cause and effect when he or she assumes that one event must cause another just because the two events often occur together.
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