Friday, December 5, 2014

Chapter three's examination of worker's in the fast food industry contains an important logical fallacy that renders Schlosser's argument unreliable. Schlosser is attempting to portray the expendability of workers and even full restaurants in a fast food chain and depict the workers of these restaurants as unmotivated to financially succeed and uninterested in unionizing. While this is true in Colorado Springs, where Schlosser's research is collected, it is not necessarily representative of the nation as a whole. This generalization fallacy makes the reader unsure of what to trust among Schlosser's facts as they are based on a small  percentage of workers in the fast food industry. Fast food restaurants are nationwide therefore Schlosser should investigate the work population of the entire nation and where they fall into the issues he asserts are plaguing the fast food workers of Colorado Springs.

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  1. The generalization fallacy can be related to the convenience bias that we learned about in Statistics. The sample was too small and did not represent the population of the country as a whole. This fallacy allows the reader to question how real the data is and the validity of Schlosser' argument. The situation and process can be applied elsewhere, but the generalization was a drawback from the source as a whole.

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