Logical Fallacy

When trying to come up with an idea of a logical fallacy, I decided to use an example that interested me. While in cross country season I never use to wear a watch while running. However, one day I decided to wear someone’s watch and did really well during that race although I never once looked down at the time on the watch. From that day forward I wore the same pink watch during every race and started the time as the gun was shot. It was almost like I thought the watch was good luck and made me run faster. This example would fall under the faulty causation fallacy because I correlated the watch with running a faster time when in reality, it made no difference. It was more like I was superstitious and had to wear that watch in order to do well. Running is pretty much an entire mental game and in order to do well, you have to think positive. It amazes me to look back on this situation and realize that I convinced myself that there was a correlation between running and wearing my watch when in actuality, a watch cannot make a person run faster. The only real thing it can do is pace a person during a race and help them run a faster time however, I never looked at the time during any race even though I started it when the gun went off.