C175 Data Management Foundations Practice Questions - Set 3 - Part 2

Test your knowledge of data-driven decision making concepts with these practice questions. Each question includes detailed explanations to help you understand the correct answers.

Question 21: What fallacy involves claiming something is true because it is popular or widely supported?

a) Appeal to the people

b) False dichotomy

c) Red herring

d) Ad hominem

Question 22: What reasoning method seeks to infer conclusions based on the sequence of events?

a) Causal reasoning

b) Inductive reasoning

c) Deductive reasoning

d) Hypothetical reasoning

Question 23: Which of the following describes the mental process of analyzing one’s own beliefs and reasoning?

a) Self-reflection

b) Self-analysis

c) Deductive reasoning

d) Reasoning

Question 24: What reasoning method forms generalizations based on specific observations?

a) Inductive reasoning

b) Deductive reasoning

c) Causal reasoning

d) Analogical reasoning

Question 25: What term describes unsupported statements that convey information without reasoning?

a) Report

b) Assumption

c) Argument

d) Description

Question 26: What type of reasoning seeks to reach a conclusion based on general principles or rules?

a) Inductive reasoning

b) Deductive reasoning

c) Analogical reasoning

d) Causal reasoning

Question 27: What fallacy occurs when someone misrepresents an opponent’s argument to make it easier to refute?

a) Straw person

b) Ad hominem

c) Red herring

d) False dichotomy

Question 28: Which reasoning method involves forming and testing hypotheses to verify their accuracy?

a) Hypothetical reasoning

b) Inductive reasoning

c) Deductive reasoning

d) Causal reasoning

Question 29: What fallacy occurs when an arguer limits alternatives to two options that are not actually the only choices?

a) False dichotomy

b) Ad hominem

c) Red herring

d) Straw person

Question 30: What type of reasoning infers a characteristic of one thing based on similarities with another?

a) Deductive reasoning

b) Analogical reasoning

c) Inductive reasoning

d) Causal reasoning

Question 31: What is the term for reasoning that tests and evaluates hypotheses?

a) Hypothetical reasoning

b) Deductive reasoning

c) Inductive reasoning

d) Causal reasoning

Question 32: What term describes a situation where the conclusion is drawn from a flawed comparison?

a) Straw person

b) Faulty analogy

c) False dichotomy

d) Ad hominem

Question 33: What term refers to an unstated belief that supports reasoning in an argument?

a) Premise

b) Assumption

c) Inference

d) Conclusion

Question 34: What fallacy involves misrepresenting an opponent’s argument to make it easier to refute?

a) Straw person

b) False dichotomy

c) Red herring

d) Ad hominem

Question 35: What reasoning method involves drawing conclusions based on cause-and-effect relationships?

a) Deductive reasoning

b) Causal reasoning

c) Inductive reasoning

d) Analogical reasoning

Question 36: What fallacy occurs when someone misrepresents an opponent’s argument to refute it easily?

a) Straw person

b) Red herring

c) Ad hominem

d) False dichotomy

Question 37: What term describes a sentence that can be either true or false?

a) Premise

b) Inference

c) Conclusion

d) Statement

Question 38: What fallacy occurs when a person attacks the individual making an argument instead of the argument itself?

a) Ad hominem

b) False dichotomy

c) Red herring

d) Straw person

Question 39: What fallacy occurs when someone concludes that one event caused another simply because it followed it?

a) Post hoc fallacy

b) Ad hominem

c) False dichotomy

d) Straw person

Question 40: Which type of reasoning seeks to infer a general characteristic based on specific characteristics of similar entities?

a) Deductive reasoning

b) Analogical reasoning

c) Inductive reasoning

d) Causal reasoning

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