https://padlet.com/ashley_lees/4rwyoyw2ssup Identifying red flags en-us 2017-10-15 13:43:05 UTC 2024-12-14 11:58:32 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Planets.png ashley_lees https://padlet.com/ashley_lees/4rwyoyw2ssup/wish/197114099 Something that is meant to be misleading and distracting. People will change the focus of a topic or argument to avoid answering questions.

This is also something used commonly in debates. President Donald Trump has used it many times in his arguments

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The example below is from an episode of "Family Guy" where Lois is running for mayor against Adam West. ]]> 2017-10-15 13:54:30 UTC https://padlet.com/ashley_lees/4rwyoyw2ssup/wish/197114099 ashley_lees https://padlet.com/ashley_lees/4rwyoyw2ssup/wish/197170903 Using  authority as evidence in your argument when there really isn't any authority. When you use something or have someone that looks like they hold authority (like a doctor, or a sports star) promoting something or advertising something.

Connection: Below is a few advertisements that were posted on youtube. They show the use of appealing to authority  when targeting audiences to buy their products. This is a perfect example by having famous and powerful people or people who look informative selling a product. ]]> 2017-10-15 22:31:46 UTC https://padlet.com/ashley_lees/4rwyoyw2ssup/wish/197170903 ashley_lees https://padlet.com/ashley_lees/4rwyoyw2ssup/wish/197171439 When you search for information purposefully to support ones existing beliefs or ideals. 
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The picture below depicts a cartoon where they make a joke out of confirmation bias, but it is still accurate. It shows an exact example of the definition. ]]> 2017-10-15 22:36:38 UTC https://padlet.com/ashley_lees/4rwyoyw2ssup/wish/197171439 ashley_lees https://padlet.com/ashley_lees/4rwyoyw2ssup/wish/197172611 Something that claims is made of all or mostly natural ingredients. 

It is used in a lot of cosmetic and hygienic commercials. Also very famously "all natural" has been slapped on numerous amounts of food brands,. It is the same just as when the very popular "gluten free" craze took off and products that never even had gluten in it in the first place started using the label to appeal to a wide variety of consumers.

Connection: Below is some makeup products that claim to be organic and natural. All natural and organic products appeal to consumers because people desire more honesty in what they buy. By purchasing something that claims to have no hidden ingredients and are essentially "pure" of all these chemicals and toxins speaks to people on many levels. However not many people know that just because something is labeled "organic" or has "all natural" ingredients, doesn't actually mean it 100% does.]]> 2017-10-15 22:47:36 UTC https://padlet.com/ashley_lees/4rwyoyw2ssup/wish/197172611 ashley_lees https://padlet.com/ashley_lees/4rwyoyw2ssup/wish/197330276 Energy has a lot of names behind it. When it comes to pseudoscience energy is referring to chi, chakra, aura, energy field, energy balance and so on. 

Connection: Here is a link to a youtube vlogger named Kalel. In this video she goes to a spa where they claim to cleanse not only her face but her energy. The first 3 minutes of the video is of her time at the spa. The rest of the video is unrelated. ]]> 2017-10-16 13:27:16 UTC https://padlet.com/ashley_lees/4rwyoyw2ssup/wish/197330276 ashley_lees https://padlet.com/ashley_lees/4rwyoyw2ssup/wish/197342127 Is used in an argument, when someone, like a politician, uses complex words or phrasing that is hard to follow or understand. When the argument is unclear it would make it so your opponent is unable to make an argument against it which will make the one using verbosity seem like they know more or understand what they are talking about even when the audience doesn't. It is a commonly used attack in debates. 

Connection: Here is a youtube video by Nerdwriter1 Published on Dec 30, 2015]]> 2017-10-16 13:45:23 UTC https://padlet.com/ashley_lees/4rwyoyw2ssup/wish/197342127 ashley_lees https://padlet.com/ashley_lees/4rwyoyw2ssup/wish/197355717 Verbosity:]]> 2017-10-16 14:03:55 UTC https://padlet.com/ashley_lees/4rwyoyw2ssup/wish/197355717 ashley_lees https://padlet.com/ashley_lees/4rwyoyw2ssup/wish/197359445 Below is an article on the loss of trust on the "all natural" claim:]]> 2017-10-16 14:09:32 UTC https://padlet.com/ashley_lees/4rwyoyw2ssup/wish/197359445 ashley_lees https://padlet.com/ashley_lees/4rwyoyw2ssup/wish/197447279 It is a use of many fallacies that use emotion in place of logic to win an argument.

"By appealing to both the brain and the heart, you will persuade the greatest number of people." Brinton, A. (1988). Pathos and the “Appeal to Emotion”: An Aristotelian Analysis. History of Philosophy Quarterly, 5(3), 207–219.

Below is a link to an article where it shows how advertisements for a lot of successful brands reach out to consumers by "connecting with the heart not the mind."]]> 2017-10-16 16:30:46 UTC https://padlet.com/ashley_lees/4rwyoyw2ssup/wish/197447279 ashley_lees https://padlet.com/ashley_lees/4rwyoyw2ssup/wish/197466172  “We don’t see with our eyes, we only see with our mind” (lecture, 1986 Richard Rose’s Psychology of the Observer: The Path to Reality Through the Self)

Perception and Observation is based all in ones own conditioned mind and beliefs. We see with our minds as Rose states not our eyes. How we view the happenings in the world and our perception of it is based all on our own existing thoughts. How you view someone or something is not entirely the same as what someone else sees with their mind. An example would be how many eye witness accounts to crimes can all differ from one another, resulting in the wrong imprisonment of so many people.

"In fact, according to the Innocence Project, a non-profit organization that assists prisoners who can be proven innocent with DNA testing, mistaken eyewitness identifications contributed to more than 75 percent of the more than 200 wrongful convictions in the United States that have been overturned on the basis of DNA ...Mar 25, 2008"

Connection: Below is an article on one wrongful eyewitness account of a rape that resulted in Julius Earl Ruffin being sentenced to prison with five life sentences. ]]> 2017-10-16 17:03:42 UTC https://padlet.com/ashley_lees/4rwyoyw2ssup/wish/197466172 ashley_lees https://padlet.com/ashley_lees/4rwyoyw2ssup/wish/197483295 It is the human tendency to connect things that are not connected. We tend to search for patterns in things where there isn't one. It is to help explain something or to make meaning of something unknown. Michael Shermer is one of the worlds deepest thinkers and in his book "The Believing Brain" he explains peoples need to find "meaningful patterns in both meaningful and meaningless data."

Connection: Below is a summary on Dr. Shermer's work and his book he wrote on his comprehensive theory of how beliefs are born and mended into real life.]]> 2017-10-16 17:35:50 UTC https://padlet.com/ashley_lees/4rwyoyw2ssup/wish/197483295 ashley_lees https://padlet.com/ashley_lees/4rwyoyw2ssup/wish/197540152 Hilarious, but true.]]> 2017-10-16 19:19:10 UTC https://padlet.com/ashley_lees/4rwyoyw2ssup/wish/197540152 ashley_lees https://padlet.com/ashley_lees/4rwyoyw2ssup/wish/197580608 2017-10-16 21:25:57 UTC https://padlet.com/ashley_lees/4rwyoyw2ssup/wish/197580608