[Vision2020] Another Answer to School Shootings . . .

[Joe Campbell]

The article that Bouma refers to and his use of it provide nice examples of
fallacious reasoning. In the article, there is a list of school shooters
and then the claim that all of them (not all school shooters but everyone
on the list) happened to be prescribed some kind of medication, though in
some instances the medication is listed merely as "Med for Depression."
Then the claim that the medications are responsible and so we should reject
Obama-care!

One fallacy is the confusion of correlation and causation. All the shooters
drank water as well but that doesn't mean that drinking water was the cause
of the shootings. One needs to establish at least "4 cells" of information
in order to make a case for a causal relation: How many took the meds and
became shooters? How many didn't take the meds and became shooters? How
many took the meds and didn't become shooters? How many didn't take the
meds and didn't become shooters? Correlation fallacies focus on just one
bit of this information, In this case, we don't really even get the first
cell of info since we don't know that the shooters took the meds, just that
they were prescribed medication (not sure how we could know this latter
point either, by the way) -- and a variety of meds to boot, some unknown or
listed just as "Med for Depression."

Today's logic lesson was brought to you by Starbucks coffee!

On Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 8:28 AM, Art Deco <art.deco.studios at gmail.com> wrote:

> Does this message from Bouma auger a merging of Freeze Church ans Christ
> Church?
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> w.
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> On Tue, Jan 1, 2013 at 9:28 PM, Tom Hansen <thansen at moscow.com> wrote:
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>> https://chumly.com/n/19166c9
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>> Seeya round town, Moscow, because . . .
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>> "Moscow Cares"
>> http://www.MoscowCares.com
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>> Tom Hansen
>> Moscow, Idaho
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