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:

CD4 Count

A measure of the number of CD4+ T lymphocytes in the blood, which is a key indicator of immune function, particularly in the context of HIV infection.

GP 120

A glycoprotein found on the surface of the HIV virus, playing a critical role in the virus's ability to infect host cells.

CD4 Receptors

Proteins found on the surface of certain immune cells that are critical for the immune system's response to pathogens, commonly associated with HIV infection dynamics.

T-cell Count

A measure of the number of T-cells, a type of white blood cell, in the bloodstream, used to assess immune system health, particularly in the context of HIV/AIDS.