The following statement is an example of what type of fallacy?

If we encourage elementary school students to use computers in the classroom, they will spend less time reading books. As a result, they will fall way behind in developing reading, writing, and thinking skills. Pretty soon we will have a generation of illiterates on our hands.

a) invalid analogy

b) bandwagon

c) slippery slope

d) red herring

e) either-or

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Billy Mccullough

15 January, 05:09

The following statement is an example of what type of fallacy?

If we encourage elementary school students to use computers in the classroom, they will spend less time reading books. As a result, they will fall way behind in developing reading, writing, and thinking skills. Pretty soon we will have a generation of illiterates on our hands.

a) invalid analogy

b) bandwagon

c) slippery slope

d) red herring

e) either-or

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Sidney Pitts · Answer 1

slippery slope

Explanation:

A slippery slope argument is a logical fallacy in which a person asserts that a relatively small step (in this problem, using computers in the classroom) will lead to a chain of related events (spend less time reading books which leads to them being way behind in developing reading, writing, and thinking skills) which then leads to a significant, usually negative, effect (a generation of illiterates.)