Douglas is deeply opposed to U.S. military operations in Afghanistan. He is preparing a speech in which he will claim that U.S. involvement there has damaged international public opinion about the United States. While researching this topic, he finds a report by an impartial nongovernmental organization that surveyed world opinions of the United States. The report states that opinion of the United States fell in ten countries, as a consequence of U.S. involvement in Afghanistan, but rose in nine other countries. Douglas decides to cite the decline in opinion in ten countries as evidence for his claim. He feels that the improved opinion of the United States in some countries in the study must have been caused by something else, not U.S. involvement in Afghanistan, and he chooses not to
mention it. Which error has Douglas made?
A. using evidence that is not relevant to his claim
B. using low-quality confirmatory evidence
C. ignoring high-quality disconfirmatory evidence
D. using subjective evidence to support his claim
Answer: C
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