Identify the type of fallacy in the following passage."A Prairie Home Companion" must be a pretty popular radio program around here. About half my friends have copies of the book the program's host recently published.

What will be an ideal response?


A hasty, and quite likely biased, generalization. The speaker's friends may not resemble the general population in their taste in radio programs.

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a. True b. False

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A. open B. close C. mid-position D. all of the above

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