Identify Any Fallacies in the Following Passage Either by Naming

question 81

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.
Reconstruction of a remark heard at a faculty meeting: "The quality of teaching performance cannot be measured. No matter what administrators at campuses around the country might say, teaching performance is simply not the kind of thing to which you can assign measurable variables and then compare a bunch of numbers at the beginning of a course and again at its end. That isn't the way it works."

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Definitions:

Misfortunes

Unfortunate events or occurrences that bring about suffering, loss, or hardship.

Pity

A feeling of sorrow and compassion caused by the suffering and misfortunes of others.

Stoics

Ancient philosophers who advocated for a life lived in harmony with reason, emphasizing personal ethics informed by a system of logic and its views on the natural world.

Hedonists

Individuals who believe that the pursuit of pleasure is the most important goal of human life.