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Professor rodgers examined survey information on people who were 65 years old and older. he found the average level of happiness reported increased from 1982 to 2002. he concluded that people under 65 years of age also experienced increasing levels of happiness from 1982 to 2002. the error he committed is called

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A false assumption based data that is not representative of the population that he is making claims about. This data cannot be generalized to people that do not share the same age.
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