People who spam Yahoo answers?

Question

Does it make you mad?

I mean if I were to post a question that was just a thinly diguised link to my author page on Napster for Nerds
( http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=860327 )

to try and get you to download the paper I've posted there so I can "game" the download charts, would that be going too far?

Ok Johnslat:
1. Tricky. I'd have to say "either or"
2. a
3. c
4. d
5. The paradigm case of begging the question
6. Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc
7. c
8. Assuming its not MY wife then d. If it were my wife then it would be irrelevant (non sequitor) but true!
9 We DID evolve from monkeys (just not modern day species of monkeys). Anyway - sounds a little "straw man" to me.
10. a

Answer 1

Darn - you got me. Interesting topic, though. I'm teaching a course on Critical Reading/Thinking.
Here a little quiz I made up:

1. "Give up smoking, or you will die"
a) can’t be a fallacy, because it is true
b) is an either-or fallacy
c) is a red herring fallacy
d) is a hasty generalization fallacy

2. "I owned a Ford once, and it broke down on me. They are terrible cars, and I will never buy one again."
a) is a hasty generalization fallacy
b)is a begging the question fallacy
c) is a weak analogy fallacy
d)is a false authority fallacy

3. "It's okay for you to cheat on your taxes. After all, most Americans do that."
a) is a straw man fallacy
b) is an oversimplifying fallacy
c) is a bandwagon fallacy
d) is a stacking evidence fallacy

4. Legalized abortion puts us only a step away from legalizing the murder of anyone we deem undesirable or inconvenient.
a) is an exaggeration fallacy
b) is not a fallacy
c) is a weak analogy fallacy
d) is a slippery slope fallacy

5. God must exist because the Bible says so, and it was written by God.
a) is a begging the question fallacy
b) is a false authority fallacy
c) is a red herring fallacy
d) is a stacking the evidence fallacy

6. School violence has gone up and academic performance has gone down ever since organized prayer was banned at public schools. Therefore, prayer should be reintroduced, resulting in school improvement.
a) is an either/or fallacy
b) is an oversimplifying fallacy
c) is a manufacturing false needs fallacy
d) is an exaggeration fallacy

7. Richard Wagner was a bully, an anti-Semite, and an adulterer, How can you listen to his music?
a) is a straw man fallacy
b) is a guilt by association fallacy
c) is an ad hominem fallacy
d) is hasty generalization fallacy

8. I know I forgot to put the check into the bank yesterday. But, nothing I do pleases you.
a) is a weak analogy fallacy
b) is a straw man fallacy
c) is a red herring fallacy
d) is an exaggeration fallacy

9. We know that evolution is false because we did not evolve from monkeys.
a) is a straw man fallacy
b) is a slippery slope fallacy
c) is an ad hominem fallacy
d) is an oversimplifying fallacy

10. Bananas and telephones are both shaped to fit our face, so bananas must, like telephones, be designed.
a) is a weak analogy fallacy
b) is a hasty generalization fallacy
c) is a red herring fallacy
d) is an either/or fallacy

How'd you do?

Not bad at all - No. 6 would be oversimplifying (there would be many more causes for school violence and declining grades than the lack of prayer in school - if, indeed, that were even a cause at all), and number 8 would be a Red Herring - introducing an irrelevant topic to divert attention from the main issue.

As for our evolving from monkeys:

"Did we evolve from monkeys?

Humans did not evolve from monkeys. Humans are more closely related to modern apes than to monkeys, but we didn't evolve from apes, either. Humans share a common ancestor with modern African apes, like gorillas and chimpanzees. Scientists believe this common ancestor existed
5 to 8 million years ago. Shortly thereafter, the species diverged into two separate lineages. One of these lineages ultimately evolved into gorillas and chimps, and the other evolved into early human ancestors called hominids." (see link below, please)

Answer 2

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Answer 3

If you are trying to deliberately hoodwink people into viewing your site or whatever to read something or buy something - yes. That is `spamming.`
Sorry!

Answer 4

no. umm.. what? dammit... that's one...