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Race car drivers drive aggressively. Marsha is a racecar driver. Therefore, Marsha drives aggressively.
What type of fallacy is used to describe Marsha?
A. straw man
B. false analogy
C. ad hominem
D. hasty generalization

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D. Hasty generalition
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Answer:

In this case we can easily observe that Marsha is being compared to the rest of the race car drivers, trying to generalize everybody which is not possible. The answer is hasty generalization.

Step-by-step explanation:

The Straw man and Ad hominem fallacies typically bring in additional factors that were not stated before in which this isn't the case. The false analogy is incorrect because it compares two similar ideas and tries to associate a result to both of them. In this case, one idea leads to next one which is a generalization.

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