QUESTION TEXT: A commonly accepted myth is that left-handed…
QUESTION TYPE: Flawed Reasoning
CONCLUSION: Left-handed people aren’t more likely to cause accidents.
REASONING: Left-handed people cause a smaller number of accidents.
ANALYSIS: This argument confuses rate (likelihood of accident) with amount (the number of accidents). Many more people are right handed, so it makes sense that they cause the highest number of accidents. But left handed people could still be more accident-prone.
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- Right handed people cause a much higher number of accidents. That’s a very real difference.
- CORRECT. Since there are many fewer lefties, it makes sense that they cause a smaller number of accidents. This would be true even if lefties were more accident prone.
- Accident always means the same thing: mistake.
- This doesn’t matter. You can be said to cause an accident whether you cause it alone or with others.
- The evidence about the number of accidents would be relevant if it were true that left-handers were as common as right handers.
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