Errors in Reasoning Questions - - Question 27

Psychotherapy has been described as a form of moral coercion. However, when people are coerced, their ability to make...

mprezzy May 28, 2020

What is the name of this flaw?

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SamA June 3, 2020

Hello @mprezzy,

This is one of those flaws that is specific to a question, and doesn't really have a general designation. Sometimes, you have to be a bit creative to point out what the author is doing wrong, as it won't always match your list of flaws.

However, I do see similar errors frequently. If I had to describe it in general terms, the author is equating two things that should not be considered equal. In this case, the misunderstanding is between "goals" vs. "actual results." Just because the goal of psychotherapy is to enhance decision making, we cannot say that this effort is successful. I suppose we could add this type of error to the list, so keep this in mind on future questions.