Misleading vividness

The logical fallacy of misleading vividness involves describing some occurrence in vivid detail, even if it is an exceptional occurrence, to convince someone that it is a problem. A fallacy is a component of an Argument which being demonstrably flawed in its Logic or form renders the argument invalid in whole Though misleading vividness does nothing to support an argument logically, it can have a very strong psychological effect because of a cognitive heuristic called the availability heuristic. heuristic (hyu̇-ˈris-tik is a method to help solve a problem commonly an informal method The availability heuristic is a phenomenon (which can result in a Cognitive bias) in which people base their prediction of the frequency of an event or the proportion within

Example 1:

Anne: "I am giving up extreme sports now that I have children. I think I will take up golf. "

Bill: "I wouldn't do that. Do you remember Charles? He was playing golf when he got hit by a golf-cart. It broke his leg, and he fell over, giving himself a concussion. He was in hospital for a week and still walks with a limp. I would stick to paragliding!"

Example 2:

Bill: "Police marksmen should use tasers instead of guns when it's safe to do so. Paragliding is a recreational and competitive flying sport A paraglider is a free-flying foot-launched Aircraft. "

Anne: "Can you imagine what would happen if those darts from the taser went into your eyes, piercing your eyeballs, and then if they sent the high voltage through your eyes and brain! It would probably kill you and be much worse than being shot. "

This fallacy is a kind of hasty generalization when an inductive generalization is a necessary premise and a single (albeit vivid) example is not sufficient to support such a generalization. Hasty generalization is a Logical fallacy of Faulty generalization by reaching an inductive Generalization based on insufficient Evidence Induction or inductive reasoning, sometimes called inductive logic, is the process of Reasoning in which the premises of an argument are believed Generalization is a foundational element of Logic and human reasoning. See faulty generalization. A faulty generalization, also known as an inductive fallacy, is any of several errors of inductive inference: Logic The proportion Q of the sample

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