HSRT-HEALTH SCIENCE REASONING TEST 2025
UPDATED
How to succeed with assumption-based questions: -
Answer-Think about which of the claims are required
to be true in order for the initial statement to also be
true
Fallacy - Answer-a false belief; an error in thinking
Formal Logical Fallacies - Answer-Poorly
constructed arguments
,Informal Logical Fallacies - Answer-fallacies that
appear in everyday reasoning
-Appeal to emotion
-Appeals to authority
Strawman Fallacy - Answer-Misrepresenting
someone's argument to make it easier to attack
Strawman Fallacy example - Answer-Person A: The
children's winter concert at the school should include
non-Christmas songs too. Person B: You won't be
happy until Christmas songs are banned from being
played on the radio!
,slippery slope fallacy - Answer-a course of action
that seems to lead inevitably from one action or
result to another with unintended consequences that
might seem ludicrous
slippery slope fallacy example - Answer-"If I allow
my son to become an atheist, he'll start murdering
people for fun! Nothing will stop him from doing bad
things, because he'll have no morals at all!"
Appeal to Emotion Fallacy - Answer-An appeal to
emotion is an effort to win an argument without facts,
, logic, or reason, but instead by manipulating the
emotions of the audience.
appeal to emotion fallacy example - Answer-Power
lines cause cancer. I met a little boy with cancer who
lived just 20 miles from a power line who looked into
my eyes and said, in his weak voice, "Please do
whatever you can so that other kids won't have to go
through what I am going through." I urge you to vote
for this bill to tear down all power lines and replace
them with monkeys on treadmills.
UPDATED
How to succeed with assumption-based questions: -
Answer-Think about which of the claims are required
to be true in order for the initial statement to also be
true
Fallacy - Answer-a false belief; an error in thinking
Formal Logical Fallacies - Answer-Poorly
constructed arguments
,Informal Logical Fallacies - Answer-fallacies that
appear in everyday reasoning
-Appeal to emotion
-Appeals to authority
Strawman Fallacy - Answer-Misrepresenting
someone's argument to make it easier to attack
Strawman Fallacy example - Answer-Person A: The
children's winter concert at the school should include
non-Christmas songs too. Person B: You won't be
happy until Christmas songs are banned from being
played on the radio!
,slippery slope fallacy - Answer-a course of action
that seems to lead inevitably from one action or
result to another with unintended consequences that
might seem ludicrous
slippery slope fallacy example - Answer-"If I allow
my son to become an atheist, he'll start murdering
people for fun! Nothing will stop him from doing bad
things, because he'll have no morals at all!"
Appeal to Emotion Fallacy - Answer-An appeal to
emotion is an effort to win an argument without facts,
, logic, or reason, but instead by manipulating the
emotions of the audience.
appeal to emotion fallacy example - Answer-Power
lines cause cancer. I met a little boy with cancer who
lived just 20 miles from a power line who looked into
my eyes and said, in his weak voice, "Please do
whatever you can so that other kids won't have to go
through what I am going through." I urge you to vote
for this bill to tear down all power lines and replace
them with monkeys on treadmills.
