Determine Which Fallacy, If Any, Is Committed in the Following

question 9

Multiple Choice

Determine which fallacy, if any, is committed in the following arguments.
-Maybe Professor Burnes has argued that IQ is not that important in determining whether a person succeeds in his or her vocation, but this is clearly nonsense. I suspect that Professor Burnes doesn't have an IQ that's exactly off the charts.

• A) begging the question
• B) appeal to ignorance
• C) appeal to illegitimate authority
• D) ad hominem
• E) strawman
• F) red herring
• G) no fallacy committed

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