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Dave Ramsey and Rachel Held Evans

December 1, 2013

Rachel Held Evans noted that Dave Ramsey gets some things wrong about poverty. On my lights she's partially right about where he's wrong. She accused him twice in the article of the false cause fallacy. 

One need not be a student of logic to observe that Corley and Ramsey have confused correlation with causation here by suggesting that these habits make people rich or poor...

 

This list simply says your choices cause results,” he said, again committing the false cause fallacy. “You reap what you sow.”