Week 7 Prompt 1&2

Dear Author,
I have found a fallacy in your editorial and I am writing to you about it. The fallacy I have found in your editorial is affirming the consequent. You wrote “The girls who excel in academics at my high school are attractive and socially savvy.” That is a fallacy because it is saying if you are a girl who is academically smart that means you are also attractive and socially savvy. Which is unlikely all true because you don’t have to be attractive to be smart? One way to fix your fallacy is by saying “most girls at the high school who are academically smart are also attractive and socially savvy. This leaves a more room for correctness because not everyone is attractive and savvy.
Sincerely,
Michelle Nakamura
http://www.jsonline.com/story/index.aspx?id=804436