Cameron D Norman, Harvey A Skinner
eHEALS: The eHealth Literacy Scale
Journal of medical Internet research
false dilemma dichotomy logical fallacy occurs interlocuters accept premises incompatibility statement jointly exhaustive ie leaving third option whereas fact case brisson et al memory cognition 2018 vol 46 pp 657670 investigated fallacy adult sample discovered content effect influenced participants performance current study aimed elaborate findings establishing whether similar patterns could observed children number ageappropriate incompatibility premises constructed every item four different inferential problems presented affirm first affirm second deny first deny second three potential answers choose x x uncertainty regarding x sample 192 volunteer children ages ranging 8 13 years collected statistical analysis showed significant effect participants age reveal main effects premise validity amount available third options possibilities outside presented dichotomy results clear replication general effects adults found brisson et al affirm inferences also easy children deny inferences difficult even adults content profound effect participants performance whenever third options could generated children less likely fall false dilemma fallacy findings thus support idea reasoning incompatibilities influenced semantic retrieval processes previously related human conditional reasoning