Paper 1 · Logical Reasoning
'The Daily News carried an article about some local teenagers arrested for drug possession. Teenagers these days are nothing but a bunch of junkies.' Which fallacy is committed?
ARed herring
BStraw man
CArgument against the person (ad hominem)
DHasty generalization ✓ Correct
Correct answer: (D) Hasty generalization — This is a hasty generalization, so that is the answer.
Explanation
★This is a hasty generalization, so that is the answer.
★From a few arrested teenagers it leaps to a claim about all teenagers.
★The sample is far too small and unrepresentative for such a sweeping conclusion.
★Generalising from insufficient cases is hasty generalization.
★The other options describe different errors that do not fit here.
★So the answer is hasty generalization.
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