allerySomeone says all students of a city are lazy after meeting two such students. Which fallacy is this?
APost hoc reasoning
BCircular reasoning
CA straw man attack
DHasty generalization
Answer & Solution
Correct answer: D. Hasty generalization
Judging a whole group from two cases is a sample too small to support the claim, so it is a hasty generalization.
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