The Seven Deadly Logical Sin

I found this reading by Heinrich to be both easy to understand and interesting. All of the fallacies that he presents can be seen in our everyday lives. The second deadly sin, the bad example, is one that I see quite often. This takes place when the examples used in everyday life, fail to prove a conclusion. The example given in the book, pertaining to crime, shows how people believe unrepresentative examples to reach a conclusion. In the example people believe that crime has increased due to what they see on televion. In reality, the level of crime has actually decreased in the past couple of years. This is called misinterpreting the evidence. After reading this I realized that this really is something that happens in everyday life.