A Good Explanation of the Slippery Slope Fallacy

About a month ago I released a.
collection of resources for teaching trainees about sensible misconceptions and cognitive biases. Considering that then TED-Ed published another good video to contribute to that collection. The video is.
Can You Outsmart the Slippery Slope Fallacy?Can You Outsmart the Slippery Slope Fallacy? In general, the video does a decent job of explaining the concept of the slippery slope fallacy and how it is or can be used by politicians.

Applications for Education.
After seeing this video I would have history trainees try to recognize other examples of slippery slope arguments utilized throughout history. In other settings I d ask trainees to try to consider examples from their own lives of domino effect arguments being used to justify an action or decision..

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