Critical Thinking Questions

Question 6: Causal oversimplification fallacy
Question 7: The event of death in people occurs as a result of various factors such as diseases, accidents, old age or natural death which could as well caused Virginia’s untimely death.
Question 8: Post hoc fallacy
Question 9: Various factors cause a nervous breakdown in individuals such as sleep deprivation and severe overwork that if they go unchecked; they result in psychological burnout and stress-induced depression ultimately causing the mental breakdown.
Question 10: Post hoc fallacy
Question 11: Virginia could have considered suicide as she felt the need to relieve her immediate relatives the burden, hardships, time employed and high costs they incurred while taking care of her.
Question 12: Causal oversimplification fallacy
Question 13: The heart and lung trouble were as a result of medical conditions with effects on the lungs and pulmonary vascular such as cancer, asthma, chronic bronchitis, Pulmonary arterial hypertension and Pulmonary embolism.
Question 14: Deceptive.
Question 15: False.
Question 16: False
Question 17: Not reasonable –confusing averages – The author uses a general term that is difficult in determining how the calculation of the figure. The author should have used more accurate values such as the mean, the median or the mode which will be useful in determining the kind of lifestyle a professional baseball would lead.
Question 18: Not Reasonable- omitting information – the author uses absolute numbers in reporting of the complaints made against the airlines.

The author should have employed the use of percentages in the determination of complaints since the United States airlines have more users compared to Alaska Airlines.
Question 19: Not Reasonable – Unknowable numbers – the author uses Unknowable statistics without indicating how the numbers were determined. Also, the use of the term fewer people does not give actual figures of the people who have premarital sex.
Question 20: Not Reasonable- proving one thing, claiming another – The author’s statistics in the complaint does not relate with the conclusion given. There is no link between the likeliness of killing family members to assailants and the seriousness of having a gun at home.