https://padlet.com/shaun_mills/assignment1 Shaun Mills 100594332 en-us 2018-10-08 22:46:05 UTC 2023-04-20 10:35:14 UTC hello@padlet.com shaun_mills https://padlet.com/shaun_mills/assignment1/wish/290509824 By Shaun Mills - 100594332
Done individually.]]> 2018-10-08 22:48:55 UTC https://padlet.com/shaun_mills/assignment1/wish/290509824 shaun_mills https://padlet.com/shaun_mills/assignment1/wish/290510011 Definition: Using an image of a person to add credibility to a claim that makes it seem more legitimate. For example, someone in a white lab coat talking about how you need a new pill to get smarter or a celebrity endorsement.

Connection: The below ad is an advertisement for diet coke which shows Taylor Swift pouring herself a glass. Diet coke is not necessarily good for you because of the negative side effects from some ingredients such as aspartame. By adding Taylor Swift into the ad, viewers may want to be like her and drink the soda as well. 

]]> 2018-10-08 22:50:46 UTC https://padlet.com/shaun_mills/assignment1/wish/290510011 shaun_mills https://padlet.com/shaun_mills/assignment1/wish/290511305 Definition: The use of the words all natural to allow people the assumption the product they are using is safe. Just because it is all natural such as poison oak, does not mean it is safe.

Connection: These cleaners below contain an all natural disinfectant called formaldehyde. Formaldehyde is formed during the burning of methane is can be very lethal to humans. In fact, it is a human carcinogen but still widely used. 

]]> 2018-10-08 23:01:22 UTC https://padlet.com/shaun_mills/assignment1/wish/290511305 shaun_mills https://padlet.com/shaun_mills/assignment1/wish/290513342 Definition: The overload of information about anything to make it seem like there is so much about it that adds comprehensive research about it.

Connection: The below image shows how we cannot believe all the information we might read about something online anymore. Wikipedia for example allows anyone to go in and modify any articles which can cause dishonesty about the subject. With that being said, Wikipedia has so much information on so many things that exist that it makes it seem as if it all HAS to be true.

]]> 2018-10-08 23:18:08 UTC https://padlet.com/shaun_mills/assignment1/wish/290513342 shaun_mills https://padlet.com/shaun_mills/assignment1/wish/290514221 Definition: Ancient Wisdom is the use of old ("ancient") techniques or theories that people believe to be true based on the fact that they have been around for so long.

Connection: For example, this post shows someone cracking their knuckles. Cracking of the knuckles has been around so long that many people consider it as a good thing to do. In reality, it doesn't really do anything and its just popping air bubbles in your joints. 

]]> 2018-10-08 23:24:20 UTC https://padlet.com/shaun_mills/assignment1/wish/290514221 shaun_mills https://padlet.com/shaun_mills/assignment1/wish/290515591 Definition: Assuming one event or situation is a direct effect from another event or situation when they are merely coincidence. For example, there is correlation between people with black hair and eating rice but not causation.

Connection: The below imagine is almost humorous because it shows the correlation between people who have died by falling into a pool and drowning versus films Nicolas Cage has starred in. This is only a correlation and evidently has nothing to do with causation. They are merely 2 random facts that correlate together and that's all. 

]]> 2018-10-08 23:35:32 UTC https://padlet.com/shaun_mills/assignment1/wish/290515591 shaun_mills https://padlet.com/shaun_mills/assignment1/wish/290516545 Definition: When there is no explanation with solid evidence to an event that happens, the general population will believe any statement that sounds remotely correct with what could have happened.

Connection: Below shows a conspiracy theory that 9/11 was an inside job from the government. This idea was formed from people who believed that the buildings would not have collapsed without bombs being detonated under ground to cause the demolition of the buildings. 

]]> 2018-10-08 23:43:39 UTC https://padlet.com/shaun_mills/assignment1/wish/290516545 shaun_mills https://padlet.com/shaun_mills/assignment1/wish/290518316 Definition: Finding meaningful patterns in meaningless noise or objects that does not exist but can skew views or hearing.

Connection: This picture shows our moon on the average night. Some people can make out a face in the moon and it can be seen as an outline of facial features in the black and dark craters. The name for this pattern is actually labelled as "The man in the moon". 

]]> 2018-10-08 23:56:37 UTC https://padlet.com/shaun_mills/assignment1/wish/290518316 shaun_mills https://padlet.com/shaun_mills/assignment1/wish/290518887 Definition: Deciding on a simple answer as to what happened during an event instead of going to a longer typically more deficult explaination.

Connection: The below image shows how a simple answer is typically better although not always thorough.

]]> 2018-10-09 00:01:56 UTC https://padlet.com/shaun_mills/assignment1/wish/290518887 shaun_mills https://padlet.com/shaun_mills/assignment1/wish/290519859 2018-10-09 00:09:29 UTC https://padlet.com/shaun_mills/assignment1/wish/290519859