Question

Your friend says the new restaurant in town has the best hamburgers. To see whether she is correct, you read a variety of online restaurant reviews. You are using ________ reasoning to determine whether this conclusion is valid.

Answer 1

Informal reasoning

Step-by-step explanation:

Informal reasoning refers to a form of reasoning that rely on general knowledge, personal thinking, and knowledge from other people in order to create a conclusion.

This type of reasoning is called 'informal' because it's not backed by proper/structured scientific research and can be heavily influenced by bias.

This can be seen in the example above. Making conclusion based on online reviews is heavily biased toward the personal preference of the reviewers.