week 4

This week we discuss about 3 topics and we started the presentation with reading 4.4, “STASTICS”. Statistics means to inform about any phenomenon or activity expressed in rhetorical form. The importance of statistic in human affair is obvious from our tendency to associate ‘facts’ closely with ‘figures’. Besides there have 4 common statistic slips which is unqualified averages, fallacious sampling, percentages unaccompanied by actual numbers and misleading presentation. This topic presented by Fahmy and Subhi.

After that, we continued the presentation again with reading 4.3 “WHAT IS EVIDENCE”. It is presented by Fazlihazwah and Bazilah who is very fastest person in talking.Oh God!! It’s really hard for me to catch up all the words that they saying until Miss Syida ask them to talk more slowly. For the first, they discuss about evidence’s mean. Evidence means the fact, objects that make you believe something is true while the arguments means a reasons or set of reasons that somebody uses to shown that something is true. There also have two types of evidence such as tangible evidence eye witness evidence. To make this topic more clearly, both of them provide and tell us the story about the famous case of kidnapping of the infant son of Charles Lindbergh. By this story, we can identify what is evidence, tangible evidence and eye witness evidence. I would like to thank to Fazli and Bazilah because their explanation make me understand this topic very well. As conclusion, “Don’t ever trust to what you heard, see and read.”

For the last presentation is reading 4.5, “CROOKED AND FALLICIOUS THINKING”. Noor and P-nut have done a good job in this presentation. One of the most common forms of fallacious and crooked thinking is the use of the transfer device. However, a crooked thinker may give the impression that he is saying something meaningful and logical when he is in fact not proving anything. He is simply drawing his conclusion from a premise which is it dependent on what is asserted in the conclusion. For the false analogy, it is used to support an argument in fact prove nothing. Equivocation is fallacy arises because some of the words used in argument maybe ambiguous. To sum up, crooked and fallacious thinking is something interesting to discuss.

Last but no least, this week we learn briefly to make a correct positioning in our coming portfolio.