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When Jenny met Jason for the first time, she asked him why he quit drinking. She did so without knowing anything about Jason's drinking habits. In doing so, What fallacies did Jenny commit?

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Hasty generalization fallacy

Step-by-step explanation:

Hasty generalization fallacy can be define as a way in which a person suddenly reach conclusion about something they saw without adequate findings, making the conclusion not to be logically justified because the evidence is not enough to make conclusion on or to support the conclusion made meaning the evidence about the conclusion or claim may be too small to generalize on.

A person with hasty generalization fallacy personality can easily jump to a concluson about everything they saw or see without much available evidence.

Therefore based on the information given Jenny has committed FALLACY OF HASTY GENERALIZATION.

User Lukas Niestrat
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Answer:

The correct answer is Fallacy of Hasty Generalization.

Step-by-step explanation:

A hasty generalization is a fallacy in which a conclusion that is reached is not logically justified by sufficient or unbiased evidence.

When one makes a hasty generalization, he or she inputs a belief to a larger population than he or she should, based on the information that he or she has.

For instance, if my sister loves to eat a lot of burger, and she is healthy, I can say that burger is healthy and don't really make a person fat.

In the example above, the generalisation is a little subtle because it is not a direct asertion but an indirect one.

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