The purposes of this study were: (1) To determine whether there is a significant difference in the ability to detect reasoning fallacies between Thai university humanities and sciences majors. (2) To determine whether there is a significant difference in the ability to detect reasoning fallacies between female and male Thai university freshmen. / The instrument used in this study was the Critical Reading Test which consisted of four subtests, these are: fact and opinion fallacy, either-or fallacy, stereotyping fallacy, and false cause fallacy. / A two-way analysis of variance was used to test for a significant difference in group means at the .05 Alpha level. The findings indicated that sciences majors obtained a statistically significant higher mean scores on the total test and on the fact and opinion fallacy subtest than did humanities majors. Females obtained a higher total mean score than did males. However, the difference was not significant. Females obtained statistically higher mean scores on the stereotyping and false cause fallacy subtests. It was also found that the false cause fallacy was the most difficult to detect followed by stereotyping, either-or, and fact and opinion. Recommendations were given for further studies and practices. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 41-10, Section: A, page: 4347. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1980.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:fsu.edu/oai:fsu.digital.flvc.org:fsu_74321 |
| Contributors | SUKCHOTRAT, TANOMWONG., Florida State University |
| Source Sets | Florida State University |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text |
| Format | 121 p. |
| Rights | On campus use only. |
| Relation | Dissertation Abstracts International |
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