Table

Name and Number of Dirty Trick

Decision-making Leading to Use

How You Would Detect the Trick

How You Might Counter the Trick

Social class influences social status.

Rich people can utilize unfair strategies to gain wealth and defend their actions through this fallacy.

The trick can be detected by attaining problem-solving techniques instead of complaining always.

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Social class influences our minds.

Those in the lower social class use the technique as an excuse for some of their failures.

The trick can be detected when an individual poses an excuse of not doing an easy task

The effective way we can counter this is by thinking critically and also solving the problems around us.

Mathematics is one of the difficult subjects.

It comes about from friends' mentality and their false stories they tell after failing in mathematics (Paul et al., 2019).

The trick can be detected when one has a bad attitude towards mathematics and they are doing less to ensure they pass

The trick can be countered by thinking critically and also working hard on the subject.

All individuals who fail in mathematics are failures.

Indolent students do not work in class and utilize this fallacy.

This dirty trick can be observed when the individuals believe that they cannot make it in life because they cannot pass mathematics

We can counter this trick my reading motivation stories of others, such as Ben Carson, who worked hard and passed in maths. We can also counter by working hard.

There is no difference between science and theology.

The trick can be used by individuals willing to portray their interest in the world of science.

We can detect the trick by obtaining useful and relevant scientific skills.

Those who pursue science subjects are always successful in their lives.

The trick is used by individuals who fail in science subjects.

The trick can be easily detected when one develops a positive attitude towards life as a result of passing science subjects

The trick can be countered by acknowledging that everyone is unique in their ways. We should also understand that success is not only tagged on academics.

Mathematics is a subject only for genius.

Lazy students fail to work and put emphasis on mathematics and use this fallacy as their success.

The trick is detectable when a group of individuals isolate themselves from studying mathematics because they believe that only certain people are capable of successfully pursuing the subject.

The trick can be detected by observing people who have a trend of failing in maths and do nothing about it.

Many people do not know the theories and laws of science.

The trick is utilized by those who make mistakes in science and use the fallacy as an excuse.

The trick can be detected when individuals fail to put sufficient efforts to recognize the definition and respective explanations regarding the theories and laws of science

The trick can be detected by having prior knowledge in science studies (Manlove, 2020).

Our minds are influenced by history.

It is used by individuals with a bad past and is willing to take advantage of others.

The trick can be detected when individuals associate their wrong actions with the activities that happened in the past.

We can be able to counter this trick by having a better understanding that our minds function the same way we cultivate them. Our minds working is not based according to things such as history.

Being right in mathematics is a sign of intelligence.

The trick is utilized by those who fail to work.

We can detect the trick during the logical intelligence sphere and therefore assume the correlation between personal IQ and maths grade.

An overweight doctor should not comment on fitness and health.

The trick used by those who believe that one should only talk on areas we possess skills with

The trick is detectable when persons fail to listen to others because they feel they are not incapable of providing enough advice associated to the existing condition given that they are experiencing some issues

We can counter the trick by appreciating others even if they don't fit our areas of specialization.

The public school system is biased and false.

The trick is used by those who fail from public schools as an excuse for their failing

The trick can be detected when an individual keeps on criticizing public schools yet they do little about improving their skills while at school.

We can counter this trick by shutting biased and false system ideas from those who had terrible experiences in the past.

Men are better at maths than women.

It is used by girls who fail to work hard in math as an excuse for bad grades.

The trick can be observed when a section of female students feel that mathematics is a difficult subject and persuade each other that they should not bother studying it because they can never pass.

We can counter this trick by thriving to have excellent and reasonable grades in the subject.

Maths is not creative.

Used as an excuse by lazy students who don’t want to bother their minds (Haston,

This can be observed when students put less effort to learn the styles and methods of understanding mathematics

We can counter this by understanding with diametrical opposites and acknowledging that mathematics is central to creativity.

There is a better way to solve mathematical problems.

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It is used to analyze the variety of methods that come on to the same answer during mathematics.

We can detect this trick by doing all mathematic levels from calculus to algorithms.