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DIRECTIONS: Three sentences that look like evidence and are not. Say what each is missing, not whether you agree.
1. ONE STORY
My neighbor learned Spanish from an app in six months, so the apps clearly work.
2. A BARE NUMBER
The new bridge design uses 40% less steel.
3. THE WRONG EXPERT
A famous heart surgeon says the new school timetable will not work.
DIRECTIONS: Three sentences that ARE evidence, in the same order.
1.Of the 4,000 people who started the app last year, 12% finished the course.
2.The new design uses 40% less steel than the bridge it replaces, which carries the same load.
3.Three schools that moved to the new timetable reported their results after two years.
- Take any one pair. What exactly did the second version add? Name the thing, do not just say it is better.
- Which of the three impostors would fool you most easily? Be honest, and say why that one.
- The third impostor quotes a real expert who is genuinely distinguished. Explain why "so you cannot trust experts" is the wrong lesson to take from it.
- Write a fourth impostor of your own — a sentence that looks like evidence and is not — then write the repaired version underneath it.