Identify Any Fallacies in the Following Passage Either by Naming

question 35

Short Answer

Identify any fallacies in the following passage either by naming them or, where they seem not to conform to any of the patterns described in the text, by giving a brief explanation of why the fallacious reasoning is irrelevant to the point at issue.
Yeah, sure the Los Angeles district attorney believes that O. J. Simpson got a fair trial. But before you sign on to something like that, you might notice that O. J. is a black man and that the Los Angeles district attorney is a white man. That tells you all you need to know about his opinion of fair trials.

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Definitions:

Population Standard Deviation

A measure of the dispersion of a set of data from its mean, calculated for the entire population.

Confidence Interval

A statistical range, with a given probability, that contains the true parameter of the population.

Mean

The mean is the average of a set of numerical values, calculated by summing all the values and dividing by the count of the values.

Standard Deviation

A measure of the amount of variation or dispersion of a set of values from the mean.