Identify Any Fallacies in the Following Passage Either by Naming

question 58

Essay

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.
Ann Landers did an informal survey on sex. Many people responded, some of them favorably, but a lot unfavorably. In a follow-up column, she wrote, "Comments by Erica Jong, Andrew Greeley, Helen Gurley Brown, Gay Talese, and Gloria Steinem showed insight and understanding. A few so-called sex experts who called the survey 'dangerous' demonstrated incredible ignorance and missed the point completely."

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Definitions:

Industry

A category of business activity that produces goods or provides services, categorized by their focus and processes.

Marginal Cost Curve

A graphical representation showing how the cost of producing one more unit of a good affects the overall cost of production.

Joint Monthly Profit

The combined profit earned by two or more partners or businesses in a single month.

Cartel

An organization of sellers designed to coordinate supply and price decisions so that the joint profits of the members will be maximized. A cartel will seek to create a monopoly in the market for its product.