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Critical Thinking Skills / Fallacies

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Introduction
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- 1.1
  Introduction
Learning objectives
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- 2.1
  Learning objectives
Fallacy literacy training
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Critical thinking skills: The 5 techniques of sciences denial by John Cook
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Resources
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Fallacy literacy training 10/15

The hasty generalisation

Also known as: insufficient statistics, argument by generalisation, faulty generalisation, hasty induction, over generality, overgeneralisation or unrepresentative sample (i.a.). The hasty generalisation is the reasoning error occurs when a conclusion is drawn from a small sample size, rather than looking at statistics that represent a much more typical or average ^[1]^[2].

Look at the figure and note how each data set shows different trends:

Figure extracted from: https://www.thoughtco.com/hasty-generalization-fallacy-1690919

In the context of climate change, trends in temperature, air quality and atmospheric phenomena can only be properly observed with a large set of data.

^[2] Based on: https://www.logicallyfallacious.com/logicalfallacies/Hasty-Generalization

Fallacy literacy training 9/15

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