Question

The quality of education in our primary schools has been declining for over a decade now. Clearly, the teachers are not doing their job. What type of fallacy is this? An no, this isn't false cause

Answer 1

Answer:

Fallacy of false causality.

Explanation:

The fallacy of false causality is exposed when an argument seeks to unite two elements in a cause-and-effect relationship, where that relationship does not exist between them, or that one of these elements has been exposed incorrectly.

An example of this can be seen in the question above, where the speaker gives the message that the poor quality of school education is the result of inefficient work by teachers. In this case, in addition to the speaker presenting an untruth about the teachers' work, he also placed them as the cause of a problem for which they have no responsibility.