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Title: A World full of Mysteries
Assignment 1 by: Becky Garner and Annabel Pardy

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Definition: Appeal to Authority is when an idea is endorsed by some sort of a celebrity figure. This red flag is used to get people to buy into certain ideas or products.

Connection:Mathew Mcconaughey and his Lincoln car commercials. These commercials get a lot of attention and even I stop and watch them. Mcconaughey has a way of pulling the viewer in and making them believe that because he drives a Lincoln that you should too. But because he’s saying he “just liked” a car doesn’t mean it’s a high quality or reliable car. What makes him and expert in cars? He’s just an actor.

Video: 3:02-3:32
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8LYpD9KyeXA

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Definition: Ancient Wisdom red flag references anything from ancient knowledges, powers and beings. But remember that believing and/or thinking that ancients had more knowledge about modern day science is wrong and illogical.

Conection:The Native American Rain Dance was performed by tribes in South Western America during the hottest summer months when the drought was at its worse. Rain was a necessity for their crops and their survival. So, the Natives would put on a rain dance ritual to convince the gods to make it rain to save them.

Article:
http://www.native-net.org/na/native-american-rain-dance.html

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Definition: Confirmation bias is when people look for evidence instead of looking too facts.They’d rather focus on their beliefs rather than pay attention to real evidence.

Connection: For Example, When people go to see psychics about a passed loved one the psychic says something like “there name started with an F”. And immediately you’ll think of someone who you knew who has passed and name started with an F. Let’s say it’s your Uncle Frank, and while your appointment goes on the psychic will keep making broad statements and asking vague questions while you fill in the blanks. You won’t notice that you’re giving them all the answers and the psychic isn’t really doing anything at all.

Video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=upB2-0jY00Q

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Definition:A red herring is something that distracts from an important issue. It leads readers or audiences towards a false conclusion.

Connection: Red herring is often used by the media for advertisement or for news. For example, when CNN is broadcasting a story they might try to distract you from real facts with a witness account. But that witness may not even have all the evidence or answers so that witness and CNN are leading you away from the facts and to what they want you to believe.

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Definition: Just because a label says All Natural doesn’t mean that a product is safe or healthy. Not every natural thing is healthy for you and it would be wise to believe otherwise.

Connection: A health supplement may be "all natural", but other things that are “all natural” include poison oak, scorpion venom, lead, mercury, bubonic plague, black holes, poison ivy, bee venom, earthquakes, tsunami’s etc. Now I don’t know about you, but those don’t seem very healthy to me. Just like the tsunami that wiped out thousands of people in Indonesia less than two weeks ago, that was all natural but it caused death and destruction.

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Definition: Seeing patterns and applying a meaning to them.

Connection: This website explains Michael Shermers thinking behind agenticity. How ghosts, aliens, angels, etc. are patterens we see that we apply meaning to because we believe them to haunt our world and control our lives. Things we see or hear that could easily have a simple meaning behind it but we chose to believe its this mythical creature we create in our heads.

Article:
https://michaelshermer.com/2009/06/agenticity/

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Definition: Something that has no description. But we try to create one ourselves.

Connection: This video is of easy do it yourself magic tricks. They may be easy but when we see them we are unaware of how it’s done and give it the explanation of it not being magic. We say "oh you're just holding that coin in your other hand." or " oh something must be in there sleeve." We watch the items disappear and apply the explanation we believe to be true.

Video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWw_1-gEdLA

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Definition: Seeing or hearing patterns in everyday objects and noises. Making something meaningful out of something non meaningful.

Connection: This image shows how our brains work to see a man’s face out of clouds in the sky. It’s a survival instinct our brains use to help prevent danger. We have taken something meaning less like the look of the clouds in the sky and recognized a familiar shape from how the clouds are placed.