Recognizing Fallacies in Your World
Pick a single night and a single commercial television channel and analyze the advertisements shown over a 1-hour period.
Choose five advertisements to analyze.
For each advertisement complete the following
a) Describe how each advertisement tries to persuade the viewer, and discuss whether the argument is fallacious.
b) Approximately what fraction of the advertisement involved fallacies?
c) After analyzing all of the advertisements, do you find that there are any fallacy types that are more common than others?