flaws and falicies
In many newspaper articles and reports, statistics are often manipulated to display more understandable results. However by manipulating the results, the statistics may favor one conclusion more than another in one hand, or lead the listener or reader to illogical conclusions in the other. Flaws in an argument usually arise when failing to address the real issues in an argument, usually by referring to irrelevant emotional appeals and other diversionary tactics. All in all, weather these things occur deliberately or unintentionally, they surely (in my opinion) weaken the argument and hits the reliability of the arguer. In this report I will give two examples of statistical manipulation taken from an advertisement in the December/2003 edition of "FLEX" sports magazine. Both were taken from an advertisement for "XENADRINE-EFX" and contain an error when giving surprisingly accurate forecasters in speaking of extremely delicate changes, which occur inside the human body. The second flaw was there lack of giving specific definitions concerning these issues. In what follows is a more detailed lay out of this situation. First, let us look at the first example of a statistical flaw within an advertisement of "XENADR
1% decrease in appetite levels and 60. The statistical claims are located in this quote from the advertisement, it states "In another independent study-EFX was clinically proven to increase peak metabolic rate by 13. As a result of what I mentioned above, their claims are statistically flawed. 1%), which simply demonstrates an example of spurious accuracy. These kinds of flaws are considered so because lack of a specific definition can lead to confusion, distortion or gross exaggeration of a problem. So saying it helps reduces fatigue levels is just too broad a concept as well as too general a sentence. Another reason that this data is flawed is that they didn't just give whole numbers; instead they went beyond that to give numbers exact to the 1st decimal place (egg, 32. Furthermore, There does not exist a universal definition for fatigue or appetite levels, it way as well hold tens if not hundreds of possible meanings. This kind of a flaw is called Lack of a Formal Definition. Glancing at this data would lead one to believe that it's simply laid in an "unrealistic" manner. The advertisement claims the product can give incredible results regarding our weights.
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