Identify the type of fallacy in the following passage.A reliable statewide study found that one western town (which we won't name) had an unusually high rate of death from cancer. The study, done during the 1970s, showed the cancer death rate for white females to be 175.4 per 100,000, compared to 154.9 for the state. One resident dismissed the finding as follows: "Statistics! You can prove anything you want with statistics! There's no more cancer here than anywhere."

Question

What will be an ideal response?

Answer 1

Hasty generalization: Some statistical conclusions aren't trustworthy, so none of them are.