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Can you outsmart the apples and oranges fallacy?

Elizabeth Cox · TED

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About

It's 1997. The United States Senate has called a hearing about global warming. Some expert witnesses point out that past periods in Earth's history were warmer than the 20th century. Because such variations existed long before humans, they claim the current trend is also the result of natural variation. Can you spot the problem with this argument? Elizabeth Cox explores the false analogy fallacy. [Directed by TOGETHER, narrated by Jack Cutmore-Scott, music by Massassauga].

The talk

  1. Can you outsmart the apples and oranges fallacy? 6 min · TED's player

Credits and licence

Institution
TED
Department
TED-Ed
Speaker
Elizabeth Cox
Year
2021
Level
For everyone
Language
English
Subjects
Earth and environment, Psychology and the brain, Teaching and learning
Source
TED
Licence
CC BY-NC-ND 4.0, as TED states it. Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions. TED's terms
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