TV Linked to Fallacy

A new study has found that children who watch 20 hours of TV news a week are 400% more likely to succumb to the cum hoc ergo propter hoc fallacy in their daily lives, and many go on to careers in media. The fallacy, whose Latin name means “with this therefore because of this”, consists of a failure to appreciate that correlation does not imply causation.

Says Mandy Ribena of the See No Evil foundation: “This confirms what we’ve been saying for years. It stands to reason that a constant diet of fallacious reasoning erodes children’s sense of logic.”

But a spokesraven for the BBC told reporters that it was even more than likely that the Internet was to blame, “arrk, or something like that.”