Identify the Type of Fallacy in the Following Passage

question 8

Short Answer

Identify the type of fallacy in the following passage.
If you think the people of Phoenix are going to give up their rights to water from the Colorado River to Los Angelenos, you'd better think about it some more. Read the letters to the editors of the Phoenix newspapers, and you'll see what I mean. People are really hot under the collar about the issue.

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Definitions:

Experimental Group

The participants in an experiment who receive the drug or other treatment under study—that is, those who are exposed to the change that the independent variable represents.

Placebo Effect

A phenomenon in which a person experiences a physiological or psychological improvement after being given a treatment with no therapeutic value.

Anxiety Disorder

A category of mental health diagnoses that lead to excessive nervousness, fear, apprehension, and worry.

Independent Variable

The variable in an experiment that is manipulated to see if it causes an effect on some other variable.