College Composition / Unit 30 CMP 0733 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Bandwagon
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The idea
The bandwagon fallacy urges people to act or think a certain way because everyone else does, and they will be excluded if they do not.
In practice
"Everyone is buying these sneakers; get yours now before you're left out" is a bandwagon; so is "No one wears things like this now."
Where people slip
A position's popularity does not make it correct.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
Builds on
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