Question

Ruth is puzzled over a report that claims that women are more likely to vote for Democrats than men. She is puzzled because her best friend, Joan, always votes for Republican candidates. Ruth is guilty of using which of the following false criteria for nomothetic causality?

Answer 1

Answer:exceptional cases

Explanation: For every rule there is an exception and those exceptional cases does not mean that the rule doesn't apply anymore.

Exceptional cases are those cases that stray away from what is considered normal or common

So Ruth' s friend happen to be an exceptional case in such that she is doing something away from the norm but he is just a singular person who doesn't represent the whole population of American women.

She just exceptional choose to vote opposite than most for her own reasons.