Week 4

This week 3 group presents their topic in Critical Literacy class. For the 1st group, they present Reading 4.4, title Statistic. Those that involved in this presentation are Fahmi and Subhi. According to the presentation, statistic can be defined in two meaning. Firstly, it refers to inform about any phenomenon and activity expressed in rhetorical. Another meaning is, it denotes the art of and science of collecting, presenting, analyzing and interpreting numerical data. There are 4 common statistic slip. First, unqualified averages, fallacious sampling, percentage accompanied by actual numbers and misleading presentation.
Topic on Crooked and Fallacious Thinking is presented by Noor and Shafinaz. Both of them used mind map in their presentation. Therefore, it makes the presentation to be easily understood. Based on their presentation, crooked and fallacious thinking is all about trying to make people believe in what they see. As example, “All tall people are brave”. “All brave people are highly-educated”. “Therefore, all highly-educated people are brave.” From this sentence, it provide crooked and fallacious thinking that make people believe “all brave people are highly educated” although it might turn out differently.
The last group that present is Fazli and Bazilah. The title of their presentation is What is the evidence? Based on their presentation, evidence means the facts, signs, and objects that make you believe something is true. There are two types of evidence. Firstly is tangible evidence. Tangible evidence can be seen in the famous case of the kidnapping of the infant son of Charles Lindbergh that led to to conviction and execution of Bruno Hauptman. Example for tangible evidence is a broken ladder, chisel and ransom notes. Secondly is eye-witnessed evidence. In the Sacco-Vanzatti case, Mary Splaine that works in factory heard a shot and saw an automobile crossing the tracks. She was just in her time of vision for two or three second only. Based on what she had seen, she accused Sacco-Vaccati. It can be concluding that ‘Don’t ever trust to what you have heard, see, and read’.