Hello,
We are going to learn about The Snow Job.
What is it?
"Proving” a claim by overwhelming an audience with mountains of irrelevant facts, numbers, documents, graphs, and statistics that they cannot be expected to understand.
Where does it occur?
Fallacies are majorly centered around situations involving debates and argument presentation and this fallacy is one of the examples for it.
Why do I need to know
A lot of writing and books are based on this. They have one thing to talk about and everything else is just decoration which might sound good but is not relevant at all.
Have you read such books? Let me know!
References & Studies: -
https://libguides.grace.edu/CriticalThinking/logicalfallacies
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