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:

Fungus Cell

A eukaryotic cell belonging to the kingdom Fungi, characterized by a chitin cell wall, absence of chlorophyll, and a unique mode of heterotrophic growth and reproduction.

Club Fungi

A group of fungi characterized by the production of spores on club-shaped structures called basidia.

Fruiting Body

The reproductive structure produced by certain fungi and plants, designed for spore dissemination.

Mushroom

A type of fungus characterized by a cap on a stem, producing spores beneath the cap, and known for a variety of shapes, sizes, and colors.