c**l 发帖数: 76 | 1 MYTH: Ever since prayer was removed from schools, public school performance
has declined and social ills have increased.
FACT: This argument is a common fallacy of logic known as post hoc ergo
propter hoc, or, the assumption that if two events occur in sequence, that the
first must have caused the second. (The phrase is Latin for "after this,
therefore on account of this.")
It is true that some indices of school performance have decreased since 1962,
but absolutely no evidence exists linking the |
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