Correction: Understanding Logical Fallacies to Identify Flawed Arguments
Corrected by Emir Baycan · Full-Stack Developer, Mobile App Builder and Web Platform Founder with expertise in SEO, automation, SaaS, AI visibility, DevOps and scalable digital products
Emir Baycan found something wrong, outdated, or unsupported on this page and proposed a fix. The publisher accepted the correction.
- Role
- Correction
- Publisher
- When Notes Fly
- Status
- Accepted
- Date
- 29 July 2026
The exact change
Wason's follow-up research showed that the error rate dropped to 65-75 percent correct when the rule involved someone drinking beer and being over 21.
Later research by Griggs and Cox (1982), not Wason himself, showed the error rate dropped to roughly 70-75 percent correct with the same social-context rule, using the real study's drinking age of 19.
Suggested change
See before/after.
Why this is better
Verified the Wason selection task and the beer/drinking-age variant against the actual research literature; the social-context version is a separate, later study by different researchers, not a Wason follow-up.
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