A committee member reads that 20 percent of college students default on government-guaranteed loans, then concludes that "college students are irresponsible." This illustrates which error in reasoning?
A. concluding that because two things are related, one caused the other
B. posing a false either-or situation
C. making an incomplete comparison
D. overgeneralizing
E. attacking the source instead of the idea
Answer: D
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