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Pregnant teens
Source: The Straits Times, 21/6/8, p.43Headline: Girls at US school get pregnant for funQuote:BOSTON: A city in Massachusetts is investigating an apparent teenage "pregnancy pact" that has at least 17 girls at a public high school expecting babies, four times more than last year. ... "Some girls seemed more upset when they weren't pregnant than when they were," Mr. Joseph Sullivan, principal of the school, Gloucester High, told Time magazine. -- Reuters, AP, NYP.Comment:Here's the first-cut analysis:Reason: Some girls more upset by non-pregnancyConclusion: There was a teenage pregnancy pactOnce the argument is explicitly stated, it is clearly seen that the reason does not warrant the conclusion. More than this is needed to prove the existence of a pact.This fallacy does not neatly fall into any named fallacy, so we'll just classify it into the catch-all group: it is a non-sequitir (Latin for "it does not follow").
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