Imagine that in class your criminology professor gave an example of a selective observation she saw in the field. Which of the following resembles the example she provided?
A. Her colleague believed that only youth who experienced trauma in childhood committed violence and this is how she interpreted the results of a survey she collected.
B. Her colleague believed that all boys engaged in vandalism and assumed that all the boys in her study engaged in vandalism too.
C. Her colleague jumped immediately to the conclusion that depictions of violence in media led to violence in all youth.
D. Her colleague found her data did not support one of her beliefs, but she still did not want to admit she was wrong.
Answer: A
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