The Slippery Slope

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GenRank Score
37.4

An informal fallacy asserting that a relatively small first step will inevitably lead to a chain of related events culminating in some significant (usually negative) outcome.

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Average Rank
#8.7
Median
#4
Range
#3#23
Consistency
☆☆☆σ=6.8
🏆Top 3 in 2/12 models
🎯Top 5 in 9/12 models

Rankings by Model

Claude Sonnet 4.5 #3DeepSeek V3.2 #3Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite #4GPT-4o-mini #4Grok 4.1 Fast #4MiniMax M2 #4Sonar #4GLM 4.7 #5Llama 4 Maverick #5DeepSeek V3 0324 #7GPT-5 Mini #10gpt-oss-120b #23