Unit 8 · Detecting Reasoning Errors
Dropped Players — Football Team Logic
Lesson 34 of 34
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Players are dropped 'usually' for poor play and 'sometimes' for poor attendance. Katya plays well but is being dropped. Kylie says she must be missing training. Fiona says perfect attendance + better play would definitely save her. The word 'usually' is the trap for both.
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When players are dropped from the school football team, it is usually because the coach thinks they have not been playing well enough. Sometimes a player will be dropped for not attending training every week.
Kylie: "The coach said she's going to drop Katya, even though she's been playing well! She can't have been coming to all the weekly training sessions."
Fiona: "If she came to the sessions and started playing even better, the coach definitely wouldn't drop her."
If the information in the box is true, whose reasoning is correct?
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