Rusty Spoon, a hospital administrator, heard a lot about gay men getting HIV, AIDS. He watched the male patients at his hospital admitted for AIDS. He thought they all looked like homosexuals, as did almost all their male visitors
In reality, at his hospital, 60 percent of the HIV-positive male patients were heterosexual and 80 percent of their visitors were neighbors, co-workers, or immediate family members. He most clearly made which type of error?
A) selective observation
B) premature closure
C) overgeneralization
D) inattention
E) none, he made no error
A
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