HFOSS Quiz #2

This is about the review of Rhetological Fallacies Infographic.

When?

1. When was the latest version of the infographic published?
1. April 2012

Who?

2. Who wrote and designed this infographic?
2. David McCandless
3. Who did the research and collected the data?
4. Marley Whiteside, Kathryn Ariel Kay, Peter Ayres.
4. Who did the translation of this graphic?
4. Gilles Peyroux

Where?

5. Where on the internet can this infographic be found?
5. http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/visualizations/rhetological-fallacies/
6. What sources did the authors use to create this visualization? List each one in the form of a hyperlink.
6. WIKIPEDIA, FALLACYFILES.ORG, INTERNET ENCYCLOPEDIA OF PHILOSOPHY,SKEPTIC DICTIONARY, CHANGINGMINDS.ORG, LOGICALLYFALLACIOUS.COM, DOSTERS, E-DUCATION.NET, EVOLUTIONWIKI.ORG,  INFIDELS.ORG, PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY, SJSU.ED,TVTROPES.ORG, SANTAROSA.EDU, A CONCISE INTRODUCTION TO LOGIC (PATRICK J HURLEY),BEGINNERS GUIDE TO THE SCIENTIFIC METHOD (STEPHEN S CAREY)

What?

7. According to the graphic, how many major categories of fallacy are there? Please list each one.
7. 6. "Appeal of the Mind", Appeal to the Emotions", "Faulty Deduction", "Garble cause and effect", "Manipulating Content", and "On the Attack".
8. How many different langauges has this infographic been tranlated into? Please list each one.
8. 5. German, Italian, Spanish, English, and German.
9. Under what license was this infographic released?
9. CC BY-NC 3.0

Bonus: Why?

10. Why might understanding these fallacies be useful or important?
10. Being able to recognize these fallacies not only helps with arguing against other's fallacies, but also makes one's own argument better, smarter, stronger.