Can you pass? 391 final Name ____________________________ Score _____/5 I will have a bogus research report below. There will be ten claims or arguments, each with a flaw. Then I will list the ten flaws and a brief explanation. You need to match them up. Each flaw is used once and once only. Take each source as legitimate within the limits of the exercise. 1) The National Football Council found an 48% increase in football injuries between 1983 and 1991, proving that this is a growing problem (Eller and Page, 54). 2) Yet Hall of Famer Dirk McGutz claims that the scientists who worry about brain injuries are “pencil-necked geeks who wouldn’t last a second on the playing field” (Tarkenton et al.) Is football becoming too dangerous for our youth? 3) In a recent survey of 100,000 American moms, 90% said that they worried about their sons playing the game, thus proving the inherent health risks (“Momma Do Preach” 3). 4) Harold Pinter Lovecraft, President of the American Soccer Swells, calls American football “a dire danger to brains everywhere, almost infinitely more dangerous than the noble sport which the rest of the world calls football, and which only ignorant yanks dub as ‘soccer’” (Bekham, Posh, and Footie 435). 5) In fact, Heck Ramsey, frequent guest on The Sports Zone on WFAN calls football “more dangerous than every other sport combined” (“Meet our Crew”) 6) Football is aware of how dangerous it is and has instituted new rules to limit injuries; those rules are in themselves damning evidence of just how much of a threat football is (Unitas and Brown, 46). 7) We just ask ourselves this: can a game invented shortly after the end of the Civil War really be meaningful in the 21st Century? 8) Further proof of football’s threat to American youth is the staggering 312% increase in brain injuries document in the Canadian Football League in the last three seasons (Ramis, Candy, and Belushi 532). 9) Our choice is obvious. Either football goes, or we will become a third-rate power, a nation of drooling idiots. 10) But don’t just trust me. Eminent cardiologist Greg Holmes calls football the single greatest threat to healthy brains of all time. Remember that we covered all of these in class A) The source is outdated B) The author has a bias or self-interest C) The methodology is flawed or the study cannot be applied to what is being discussed D) The qualifications of the source are not clearly reliable E) The person is an expert in a different field F) This is a false appeal to progress G) Argumentum ad populem (or the majority are always right) H) A false dilemma or excluded middle I) An ad hominem attack (attack against the person) J) A confusion between correlation, cause, and effect ANSWER AREA 1_____ 2_____ 3_____ 4_____ 5_____ 6_____ 7_____ 8_____ 9_____ 10_____
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