Wide Usage Of Red Herring

People use red herrings in nearly every kind of communication.

These include the following:

• Persuasive essays
• Argumentative essays
• Debates
• Speeches
• Conversations
• Storytelling
• Emails
• Blog posts

Sometimes, speakers and writers make red herring statements inadvertently, either because they genuinely think the statement they’re making is relevant to the discussion or because they aren’t thinking critically about the statements they’re making.