Identify the type of fallacy in the following passage.Housing is far too expensive in this country. Why, the median price of a home in most of California is now over $350,000.
What will be an ideal response?
If the speaker is generalizing from California to the entire country, then the argument is a hasty generalization; and, if you are aware of typical housing costs in California, you could also call it a biased generalization. But perhaps the speaker only means that when the median price of a home approaches $350,000 in some place-California or wherever-then housing has just gotten too expensive in this country. If the passage is viewed this way, it's not clear that the speaker is even offering an argument.
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