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	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/False choice
		The logical fallacy of false choice is a correlative-based fallacy in which options are presented as being exclusive when they may not be.
		This example of the fallacy presents the false choice between a hitman and a videogamer, ignoring both the fact that exclusion is not inherent (i.e.
		A typical false choice is the assertion "You are either for us or you are against us." The chooser is forced to decide between absolute commitment or absolute non-commitment.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/False_choice (446 words)

	False dilemma - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The logical fallacy of false dilemma, which is also known as fallacy of the excluded middle, false dichotomy, either/or dilemma or bifurcation, involves a situation in which two alternative points of view are held to be the only options, when in reality there exist one or more alternate options which have not been considered.
		The false dilemma fallacy refers to misuse of the or operator.
		A false dilemma may not necessarily be limited to two choices; it may involve three possibilities, in which case it is known as a trifurcation, or more, in which case the dilemma may be more the result of accidental omission than deliberate intent.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/False_dilemma (368 words)

	The veil or the push-up bra? It’s a false (non)choice at Larvatus Prodeo
		Choice is missing both from Delaney’s advertising driven compulsions and from the religious imperatives many Muslim women face.
		To present women’s fashion as a ‘choice’ between the burqa on one hand and low-cut tight stuff on the other just reveals that the writer (any writer who does this, and there are plenty) is only interested in seeing fashion as a tool of oppression.
		I think this choice rhetoric is so frustrating..It’s a woman’s choice to wear a push up bra, it’s a woman’s choice to wear the veil, but in reality, our choices are severely restricted as women and we can’t fail to acknowledge the context in which these choices are made and the influences behind them.
	larvatusprodeo.net /2006/10/17/the-veil-or-the-push-up-bra-its-a-false-nonchoice (3309 words)

	Encyclopedia: False choice
		This fallacy is also known as Morton's Fork: Mortons Fork is an expression that describes a choice between two equally unpleasant alternatives, or two lines of reasoning that lead to the same unpleasant conclusion.
		"False choice is an acceptance of failure - the failure of Labour's spending plans, targets and tick-box culture," Mr Kennedy said in speech at Liberal Democrat headquarters in London on Tuesday.
		Choice in education was also a "false god", he said slamming Labour's plans to introduce Foundation Schools where the best establishments would be given more autonomy from Whitehall control.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/False-choice (448 words)

	School Choices: Books: The Independent Institute
		Widespread fallacies include: “better means good,” restriction-laden choice is an insightful experiment, choice will necessarily produce a larger version of the existing private-school sector, most schools are fine, and low performing schools are concentrated in the low-income inner city.
		To reorient the school choice debate, advocates must keep in mind that the goal is to improve education for all students—not just those in an allegedly small subset of under-performing schools.
		To that end, school choice advocates should emphasize that under genuine school choice, the number of schools and diversity of teaching approaches would be significantly larger than under the current system.
	www.independent.org /books/brief_school_choices.html (2404 words)

	Facts about topic: (False choice) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The logical fallacy (A fallacy in logical argumentation) of false choice is a correlative based fallacy (additional info and facts about correlative based fallacy) in which options are presented as being exclusive when they may not be.
		"The CIA director has misled the nation using false intelligence; he must either be incompetent or lying."
		There's nothing to prevent someone from being both incompetent and a liar, or from being neither (there might be an entirely seperate reason for the use of false intelligence).
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/f/fa/false_choice.htm (102 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Politics \| Lib Dems slam NHS 'false choices'
		He attacked Mr Blair for using choice as a smokescreen to hide NHS failures.
		Using choice as "the panacea for reform" was "downright misleading", he said.
		For the Conservatives, the 'choice' mantra is a mask.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/uk_politics/3848347.stm (638 words)

	Test Taking Strategies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		It is easy for the instructor to add a false part to an otherwise true statement.
		With true or false questions, the questions are generally true.
		It is smart to state a reason why the question would be false.
	www.byu.edu /stlife/cdc/learning/strategy.php (1889 words)

	Test Development: True-False (Force-Choice) Questions Section B: Writing Questions and Evaluating Responses
		With only two choices (true or false) the student could expect to guess correctly on half of the items for which correct answers are not known.
		When changing items to false (as well as in writing the true statements initially), it is best to keep items stated positively, avoiding negatives or double negatives.
		While a student might correctly guess that a statement is false, no credit would be given unless the student could change the statement to a true one by writing word/words to replace underlined word(s).
	web.utk.edu /~mccay/apdm/t_false/t-f_b.htm (1628 words)

	Instructional Design and eTeaching Services \| Using Respondus with WebCT
		With an Exam file, feedback for individual answer choices can be imported by placing the feedback immediately after the answer choice and by beginning the line with the @ symbol.
		It’s important to note that the "True" (or "T") answer choice must be listed prior to the "False" (or "F") answer choice in order for Respondus to recognize it as a true and false question type.
		A second way to designate a correct answer for a true and false question is to place it in a list of correct answers at the end of the file.
	www.bc.edu /offices/instruction/eteaching/howdoi/respondus.htm (2088 words)

	Bush and his famous false choices means, withdrawal NOW (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Other moderate alternatives, like UN inspections or containment or continued sanctions, were simply rejected or ignored to create the false choice: give Bush power to invade or let Saddam do whatever he wanted.
		Now Bush's false choice is, give me yet another blank check for occupation in the way and as long as I want, that I may torture who I want, contract with Halliburton as I please, stop loss who I want---or just cut and run.
		His intent is to maintain the false choice rather than give up one iota of control to us or to a timetable or a target.
	www.afterdowningstreet.org /node/2421/print (315 words)

	Working in a changing world - Working and training - It's your choice. Information on work and learning options for ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		False, there are not fewer jobs for people without specific skills.
		False, working patterns and locations will not become more flexible.
		False, continuing to learn new skills is not the best way to cope with these changes.
	www.connexions.gov.uk /itsyourchoice/job/changingworld.cfm?q1a=&q2a=t&q3a=f&q4a=f (335 words)

	Mike warns Lib Dem conference against "false choice" in health (Councillor Mike Bell)
		Tory and Labour plans for "choice" in health and education were under the spotlight at the Liberal Democrat regional conference in Cheltenham on Saturday.
		Tory choice is a choice only for those who can afford to pay.
		No choice for residents in North Somerset, where only one GP is available to serve 200,000 out of hours.
	www.mikebell.libdems.org.uk /news/117.html (390 words)

	False choice - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The logical fallacy of false choice is a correlative based fallacy in which options are presented as being exclusive when they may not be.
		"The CIA director has misled the nation using false intelligence; he must either be incompetent or lying."
		There's nothing to prevent someone from being both incompetent and a liar, or from being neither (there might be an entirely separate reason for the use of false intelligence).
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/False_choice (115 words)

	TAPPED
		Hmmm, observing that Ezra presents a false choice is the equivalent of acknowledging that one doesn't care about curing cancer.
		So your attempting to divert from the point by framing it as a false choice (the federal budget is finite, so the choices that have to be made are very real), or quibble with phrases like "fully funded" suggests to me that you, indeed, don't really care whether cancer research gets funded or not.
		The choice to fund cancer research is not dependent upon whether taxes are cut or wars are being waged.
	www.prospect.org /weblog/2006/09/post_1314.html (2316 words)

	Bush's false choices - The Boston Globe
		It's as if the administration were waving a sampler embroidered with that old saying: If you are keeping your head while all about you are losing theirs, perhaps you don't know the seriousness of the situation.
		We have been handed yet another in an endless series of false choices.
		There is an old theatrical adage that when there's a gun on stage in the first act, it will go off by the third act.
	www.boston.com /news/globe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2005/12/23/bushs_false_choices/?p1=email_to_a_friend (684 words)

	MyDD :: The False Choice of Big vs Small Government
		Throughout modern politics, partisans have engaged in a false fight over whether government should be "big" or "small." We hear this debate all the time and no doubt will be a recurring theme as we head toward the 2006 election season.
		At its core, their attack is based on a false claim on what government is. They claim government is some personless machine that runs every aspect of our lives.
		The Republicans have framed the issue as the false dichotomy of either you are for their cuts of what Government does, or you like wasteful bureaucracy.
	www.mydd.com /story/2005/3/16/133646/932 (1651 words)

	normblog: A false choice
		It is true that McGreal doesn't present this choice simply out of his own mouth.
		It is a spurious choice for all that.
		I do so here again because the choice as offered is an offensive one even when it is on the authority of a Jewish writer.
	normblog.typepad.com /normblog/2005/03/a_false_choice.html (460 words)

	Avocare: The DNC, The RNC, And The False Choice
		And it’s here that we find the main point: the decision to extend press credentials to select bloggers was a false choice … the convention in Boston was going to be blogged, from the floor and by citizens with no editorial board, whether I or any other blogger received credentials or not.
		To me, this false choice is the real indication that blogging has “arrived.” We’re becoming pervasive.
		And the convention committees aren’t the only ones facing the consequences: all staid institutions face the same false choice … we saw it in Iraq, and we’ll increasingly see it in China, Iran, Microsoft, and the Pentagon.
	www.avocare.net /archives/001567.html (738 words)

	PPI: Competitive Ideas on School Choice by Andrew J. Rotherham
		Many proponents of private school choice view it as almost a panacea while opponents refuse to acknowledge real or potential gains from even public school choice strategies.
		Many combatants are less interested in evidence than fighting an ideological battle over the false choice between government and markets as the provider of public education.
		Too often missing from this discussion are two elements: thorough analysis about the impact of choice on schools, and discussions of choice options besides vouchers.
	www.ppionline.org /ppi_ci.cfm?knlgAreaID=110&subsecID=134&contentID=250505 (862 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		To import feedback for individual answer choices of multiple-choice questions (only available with Blackboard 6 and higher), place the feedback immediately after the answer choice and begin the line with the @ symbol.
		F It’s important to note that the "True" (or "T") answer choice must be listed prior to the "False" (or "F") answer choice in order for Respondus to recognize it as a true and false question type.
		A second way to designate a correct answer for a true and false question is to place it in a list of correct answers at the end of the file.
	www.csulb.edu /~asovich/ACS/BUG/Dec12/Importing_Questions_respondus.doc (2141 words)

	Em & Lo's Sex Ed for Grown Ups (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		True or False: In the last four years, more than 200 anti-choice measures have been introduced in state legislatures across the country.
		True or False: Earlier this month, the Senate approved a foreign aid bill for 2005 that would restore funding for the United Nations Population Fund.
		True or False: This spring, the Department of Justice subpoenaed the medical records of women who'd had abortions after the first trimester in clinics and hospitals in five U.S. states.
	www.naral.org /sexedforgrownups/quiz2.htm (1975 words)

	More Multiple-choice Item Writing Do's And Don'ts
		Some of these are backed up by psychometric research; i.e., it has been found that, generally, the resulting scores are more accurate indicators of each student's knowledge when the recommendations are followed than when they are violated.
		Therefore, it's OK to use items that begin, "Which of the following is true [or false] concerning X?" followed by options all pertaining to X.
		However, this construction should be used sparingly if there is a tendency to resort to trivial reasons for falseness or an opposite tendency to offer options that are too obviously true.
	www.ericae.net /digests/tm9504.htm (1419 words)

	Choices Component
		The Choice class is a lot like lists but allows you to conserve space since it provides a pop-up menu of text string choices.
		To work with a choice box, an instance of the Choice class must be created.
		The Choice class calls the action method whenever a choice is made, regardless of whether it is a new choice or not.
	www.krhs.net /computerscience/java/choices.htm (423 words)

	Congressman David Wu (OR01) - Press Releases - With The Future Of The Gorge At Stake, Wu Continues His Fight
		Instead, proponents are presenting Oregonians with a false choice of Hood River or Cascade Locks."--Congressman David Wu Washington, DC--Yesterday Congressman David Wu sent a second letter to United States Interior Secretary Gale Norton expressing his opposition to the development of a gambling casino complex in the Columbia River Gorge.
		Proponents present their case as a choice between Hood River and Cascade Locks, two communities located in the Columbia River Gorge and in the designated National Scenic Area.
		Proponents of the casino have falsely presented placing a casino in the Columbia River Gorge as a choice between Hood River and Cascade Locks, two communities on the Oregon side of the Columbia River Gorge, both in the National Scenic Area.
	www.house.gov /apps/list/press/or01_wu/pr09202005gorge.html (1935 words)

	HaloScan.com - Comments
		However, considering her chops, I would have liked to see her be more harsh, and not have a sensitive side at all (like in the book) because I think Meryl would totally have rocked the "all-out beyotch" character.
		The irony of your reference to "Swimming with Sharks" is that the protagonist ultimately makes the choice [as demonstrated by killing his girlfriend instead of his dickhead boss] to move up the corporate ladder.
		On the subject of sharks, in the famous monologue scene where Buddy is being tortured, he pretty much lets on that his sole reason for being mean is that people were mean to him when he was in the assistant job.
	www.haloscan.com /comments/someguyindc/115307223236218075 (872 words)

	Editorials -- H*yas for Choice Flyers False, Inappropriate
		Hyas for Choice* decorated Red Square with hangers strung with fliers in support of Roe v.
		In NARAL we spoke of it [as] always ‘5,000 to 10,000 deaths a year.’ I confess that I knew the figures were totally false, and I suppose the others did too if they stopped to think of it.
		While I highly doubt that anyone in Hyas for Choice* deliberately decided to use false statistics, these specific hanger-fliers, nevertheless, have created irreparable harm.
	www.thehoya.com /editorials/041503/edit4.cfm (302 words)

	River Network Resources (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Additionally, high population growth rate projections and very high projections of increasing per capita water use led the Birmingham Water Works to propose the construction of a large drinking water supply dam on the Locust Fork River to augment, and perhaps eventually replace, the Cahaba as a drinking water source.
		The Cahaba River Society and the Friends of the Locust Fork River responded by demonstrating technically and publicly that this was a false choice.
		Rather than allowing the Alabama river conservation movement to be divided by it, the groups worked together to present a far better choice in the form of a comprehensive set of protection and management actions for all the rivers of the region.
	www.rivernetwork.org /resource-library.php?ResourceID=580 (428 words)

	Newsletter 2:2
		The hedged answers also help the students quickly focus on the concepts they are unsure of in the reading assignments, and these are the ones that are dealt with in the team discussion and the written appeals described in the previous column.
		In the multiple choice section, each question has the standard five choices, but anywhere from one to five choices may be correct.
		Constructing a true-false/multiple choice test in this fashion is perhaps a bit more challenging, especially in devising the scoring system, but it transforms the test into a true learning tool that promotes critical thinking rather than being just a quick spot-check on who has done the assigned reading.
	www.cod.edu /outcomes/news22.htm (1388 words)

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