Logical Fallacies

Argumentum ad numerum (argument or appeal to numbers) – Attempting to prove something by showing how many people thinks it is true. But no matter how many people believe something, that doesn’t necessarily make it true or right. I have found this logical fallacy in contemporary magazines for both genders. Men’s health for example will have a survey stating that 60% of men think women are moody. The only problem with surveys like this is that the number of people actually surveyed does not accurately represent any given population. I have committed this fallacy before, I am sure that I have committed it more then once. At some time in my life, I have exaggerated the number of people in a story, the amount of work completed. I am now aware of what I was doing because it now has a name. Logical fallacies are something new to me, before the assignment I had never heard of this. Now I will be aware that what I am doing is called Argumentum ad numerum. http://www.csun.edu/~dgw61315/fallacies.html