The "snow job" fallacy involves "proving" a claim by overwhelming an audience with a massive amount of irrelevant facts, numbers, documents, graphs, and statistics that they cannot reasonably be expected to understand.
La falacia "snow job" (o "lavado de coco") consiste en "demostrar" una afirmación abrumando a la audiencia con una gran cantidad de datos, números, documentos, gráficos y estadísticas irrelevantes que no se espera que comprendan.
| Fallacy | snow job |
|---|---|
| Definition and Examples | “Proving” a claim by overwhelming an audience with mountains of irrelevant facts, numbers, documents, graphs and statistics that they cannot be expected to understand. |
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