Red Flags and Reasons for Belief by Haley McGrath https://padlet.com/lildee666/qdxfz1ueh888 Assignment #1 en-us 2018-03-05 23:12:57 UTC 2023-04-05 23:41:29 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-uploads.storage.googleapis.com/152486259/0545a4be4c06e6722ad91bcba0cebaff/untitled.png Red Flags & Reasons of Belief lildee666 https://padlet.com/lildee666/qdxfz1ueh888/wish/238395611 Haley Kuntzie]]> 2018-03-05 23:28:04 UTC https://padlet.com/lildee666/qdxfz1ueh888/wish/238395611 Reason For Belief #3 - Patternicity lildee666 https://padlet.com/lildee666/qdxfz1ueh888/wish/238396852 Definition: Patternicity is the tendency to find patterns in meaningless things. Since people have a natural instinct to look for pattern we for example look at the front of a car and picture a face.

Connection: This photo is a picture of a bunch of lighters but although I do see the lighters I also see a smiley face on the top of each lighter which confirms that people do have a tendency of finding patterns in meaningless things. ]]> 2018-03-05 23:35:48 UTC https://padlet.com/lildee666/qdxfz1ueh888/wish/238396852 Reason For Belief #2 - Agenticity lildee666 https://padlet.com/lildee666/qdxfz1ueh888/wish/238397020 Definition: Agenticity is when people assign meaning or agency to an invisible being. for example angels or conspiracies.

Connection: The illuminati is probably one of the more well known conspiracy theories or "agents" that people blame for apparently working behind the scenes and controlling things like the government or economy.]]> 2018-03-05 23:37:03 UTC https://padlet.com/lildee666/qdxfz1ueh888/wish/238397020 Reason For Belief #1 - Emotional Connection lildee666 https://padlet.com/lildee666/qdxfz1ueh888/wish/238397113 Definition: Emotional Connections is when emotions take over and they can blur reason and make you think irrationally and it can make you want to believe.

Connection: This meme jokes about how because families/people are grieving they will do any thing like spend way too much money on a psychic or believe in anything like a psychic to be able talk to their family members because of there emotional connection their rational thinking is blurred.]]> 2018-03-05 23:37:40 UTC https://padlet.com/lildee666/qdxfz1ueh888/wish/238397113 Red Flag #1 - Red Herrings lildee666 https://padlet.com/lildee666/qdxfz1ueh888/wish/238397251 Definition: Red Herring is a fallacy people use to distract you from the relevant issue at hand. They do this by throwing irrelevant information into their argument to divert you away from the real topic they may appear relevant by having the same names or places involved, but it is just misleading information.

Connection: This picture shows a literal red herring which is used as a distraction for hounds while hunting to divert them from their original path and it is saying "I'm here to distract you" which is poking fun at the fallacy of red herring because a red herring is information that is supposed to divert you from the original path of thought.
]]> 2018-03-05 23:38:29 UTC https://padlet.com/lildee666/qdxfz1ueh888/wish/238397251 Red Flag #4 - Appeal to Authority lildee666 https://padlet.com/lildee666/qdxfz1ueh888/wish/238397311 Definition: Appeal to authority is using authoritative figures such as doctors or celebrities to make an appearance of credibility of something.

Connection: This picture is of a doctor and it says "trust me, I'm a doctor" which has a connection to appeal to authority because the whole meaning of appeal to authority is if you slap a lab coat on someone you should believe the information they give so it is joking that just because he has on the white lab coat and he is a doctor you should trust him.]]> 2018-03-05 23:38:53 UTC https://padlet.com/lildee666/qdxfz1ueh888/wish/238397311 Red Flag #5 - Confirmation Bias lildee666 https://padlet.com/lildee666/qdxfz1ueh888/wish/238397387 Definition: Confirmation bias is remembering facts that confirm our beliefs and often forget the ones that does not support our belief. so when we are searching for information we usually cherry pick the information that supports our argument.

Connection: This picture shows a person doing research and the first link that AGREES with his side and uses that as the "truth" so this has a connection to conformation bias because it just that people put on blinders an look for information to prove their point instead of looking at both sides, which is conformation bias.]]> 2018-03-05 23:39:14 UTC https://padlet.com/lildee666/qdxfz1ueh888/wish/238397387 Red Flag #2 - Proof by Verbosity lildee666 https://padlet.com/lildee666/qdxfz1ueh888/wish/238397637 Definition: Proof of Verbosity consists of someone stating huge volumes of information for an argument. This overload of information gives the appearance that it has to be true with all of that information. but it is the quality of the information not the quantity that is important.

Connection: This photo is connected to proof of verbosity because it is making a joke about how people replace vocabulary(tons of words or information) for actual logic, which is the meaning of proof of verbosity.]]> 2018-03-05 23:40:45 UTC https://padlet.com/lildee666/qdxfz1ueh888/wish/238397637 Red Flag #3 - Confusion of Correlation with Causation lildee666 https://padlet.com/lildee666/qdxfz1ueh888/wish/238397967 Definition: a correlation is a connection between two or more things or events, but just because there is a connection doesn't mean that one causes the other. that is where people have trouble telling the difference between correlation and causation.

Connection: In this video it takes about how people are connecting vaccines with autism so they are becoming anti-vaccine families and it shows the affect of people not getting there vaccinations because they are confusing correlation with causation because kids are usually diagnosed with autism around the same age they start getting vaccinations.]]> 2018-03-05 23:42:38 UTC https://padlet.com/lildee666/qdxfz1ueh888/wish/238397967 Word Document lildee666 https://padlet.com/lildee666/qdxfz1ueh888/wish/238449969 2018-03-06 04:28:07 UTC https://padlet.com/lildee666/qdxfz1ueh888/wish/238449969