Self-study
What is the official flaw name for "cookie-cutter" flaws?
For example, would this be Bad Conditional reasoning?
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What is the official flaw name for "cookie-cutter" flaws?
For example, would this be Bad Conditional reasoning?
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I would explain how some companies, like 7sage, call these repeated patterns of flawed question types "cookie-cutter." The inference is that not be so surprised at these flawed types as they show up in different ways-they are not new. I guess it is kind of comforting to know to some...' once you have seen them and recognize them, they will keep showing up like causation/correlation, necessity/sufficiency, whole/part; numbers/percentage confusions....
That's just a term that refers to flaws that are recurring and very predictable!
For example:
I drank a lot of coffee before my LSAT and scored a 180. Therefore, drinking coffee caused my perfect score.
This argument commits the cookie cutter flaw of taking correlation to be causation. And yes, bad conditional reasoning is also cookie cutter, like when the argument confuses sufficiency and necessity.