Fallacymania: party game where you notice fallacies in arguments
Fallacymania is a game developed by Moscow LessWrong community. Main goals of this game is to help people notice fallacies in arguments, and of course to have fun. The game requires 3-20 players (recommended 4-12), and some materials: printed A3 sheets with fallacies (5-10 sheets), card deck with fallacies (you can cut one A3 sheet into cards, or print stickers and put them to common playing cards), pens and empty sheets, and 1 card deck of any type with at least 50 cards (optional, for counting guessing attempts). Rules of the game are explained here:
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0BzyKVqP6n3hKQWNzV3lWRTYtRzg
This is the sheet of fallacies, you can download it and print on A3 or A2 sheet of paper:
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0BzyKVqP6n3hKVEZSUjJFajZ2OTA
Also you can use this sheet to create playing cards for debaters.
When we created this game, we used these online articles and artwork about fallacies:
http://obraz.io/ru/posters/poster_view/1/?back_link=%2Fru%2F&lang=en&arrow=right
http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/visualizations/rhetological-fallacies/
http://lesswrong.com/lw/e95/the_noncentral_fallacy_the_worst_argument_in_the/
Also I've made electronic version of Fallacymania for Tabletop Simulator (in Steam Workshop):
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=723941480
[LINK] Common fallacies in probability (when numbers aren't used)
Too many people attempt to use logic when they should be using probabilities - in fact, when they are using probabilities, but don't mention it. Here are some of the major fallacies caused by misusing logic and probabilities this way:
- "It's not certain" does not mean "It's impossible" (and vice versa).
- "We don't know" absolutely does not imply "It's impossible".
- "There is evidence against it" doesn't mean much on its own.
- Being impossible *in a certain model*, does not mean being impossible: it changes the issue to the probability of the model.
Biases and Fallacies Game Cards
On the Stupid Questions Thread I asked
I need some list of biases for a game of Biased Pandemic for our Meet-Up. Do suitably prepared/formatted lists exist somewhere?
But none came forward.
Therefore I created a simple deck based on Wikipedia entries. I selected those that can be presumably be used easily in a game, summarized the description and added an illustrative quote.
The deck can be found in Dropbox here (PDF and ODT).
I'd be happy for corrections and further suggestions.
ADDED: We used these cards during the LW Hamburg Meetup. They attracted significant interest and even though we did use them during a board game we drew them and tried to act them out during a discussion round (which didn't work out that well but stimulated discussion nonetheless).
Video (11 min): fallacies in nutrition and cancer research.
Mentions include selection bias, lack of reproduction of results, naturalistic fallacy, status signalling, habituation, science as attire, and maybe some I didn't catch.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3g1denSoAbc&feature=player_embedded
Logical fallacy poster
http://www.yourlogicalfallacyis.com

Just printed an A3 of this.
See now http://lesswrong.com/lw/c9u/logical_fallacies_poster_a_lesswrong_adaptation/
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